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

Gordon DM. The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies. Nature. 2013;498(7452):91-93.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jordan MJT, Kable SH. Chemistry. Roaming reaction pathways along excited states. Science. 2012;335(6072):1054-1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weeks AR, Marec F, Breeuwer JA. A mite species that consists entirely of haploid females. Science. 2001;292(5526):2479-2482.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shu DG, Chen L, Han J, Zhang XL. An Early Cambrian tunicate from China. Nature. 2001;411(6836):472-473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. Random Vibration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Kyriacou E, Christofides S, Pattichis CS, eds. XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016: MEDICON 2016, March 31st-April 2nd 2016, Paphos, Cyprus. Vol 57. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Schlesinger KG. Some Steps Towards Noncommutative Mirror Symmetry on the Torus. In: Fauser B, Tolksdorf J, Zeidler E, eds. Quantum Field Theory: Competitive Models. Birkhäuser; 2009:83-94.

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. Anti-Science Senator Will Oversee Committee Covering NASA and Science Funding. IFLScience. January 13, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/anti-science-senator-will-oversee-committee-covering-nasa-and-science-funding/

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. Transportation Safety: Federal Highway Administration Should Conduct Research to Determine Best Practices in Permitting Oversize Vehicles. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gu J. Measurement, Modeling, and Synthesis of Time-Varying Appearance of Natural Phenomena. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University; 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

Hodara S. A Handmade Sea of Sparkling Glass. New York Times. January 3, 2016:WE9.

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