How to format your references using the Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Kerr RA. GEOPHYSICS: Atmosphere Drives Earth’s Tipsiness. Science. 2000;289(5480):710.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cahoon LA, Seifert HS. An alternative DNA structure is necessary for pilin antigenic variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Science. 2009;325(5941):764-767.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilman RT, Nuismer SL, Jhwueng DC. Coevolution in multidimensional trait space favours escape from parasites and pathogens. Nature. 2012;483(7389):328-330.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Matsubara Y, Chiba T, Kashimada K, et al. Transcription activator-like effector nuclease-mediated transduction of exogenous gene into IL2RG locus. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5043.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Lahdenmäki T, Leach M. Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Abu el Ata N. The Tyranny of Uncertainty: A New Framework to Predict, Remediate and Monitor Risk. (Schmandt R, ed.). Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Helms RM, Rumbley LE. A “Primer” for Global Engagement. In: Rumbley LE, Helms RM, Peterson PM, Altbach PG, eds. Global Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education Leaders: Briefs on Key Themes. SensePublishers; 2014:15-18.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care.

Blog post

Andrew E. Cunning Cats Forced Dogs To Evolve... Or Go Extinct. IFLScience. August 13, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cunning-cats-forced-dogs-evolve-or-go-extinct/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Bureau of Indian Affairs Contracts for Automatic Data Processing Management Services, and for Development of a Management Information System at the Colorado River Indian Reservation. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Dulick KC. Self-Neglect among the Elderly: Knowledge and Perceptions of MSW Students. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Van Gelder SKC by L. Arts, Briefly; Coppola and Putin Meet. New York Times. February 1, 2005:E2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care
Abbreviation	Curr. Probl. Pediatr. Adolesc. Health Care
ISSN (print)	1538-5442
Scope	General Medicine Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health