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

Macilwain C. The time is right to confront misconduct. Nature. 2012;488(7409):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsou MFB, Stearns T. Mechanism limiting centrosome duplication to once per cell cycle. Nature. 2006;442(7105):947-951.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh JP, Cohen WM, Arora A. Science and the law. Working through the patent problem. Science. 2003;299(5609):1021.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pang H, Wei C, Li X, et al. Microwave-assisted synthesis of NiS2 nanostructures for supercapacitors and cocatalytic enhancing photocatalytic H2 production. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3577.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Safe Warehousing of Chemicals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1998.

An edited book

Zvacek S, Restivo MT, Uhomoibhi J, Helfert M, eds. Computer Supported Education: 7th International Conference, CSEDU 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 23-25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 583. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Plastino A, Plastino AR. Information and Thermal Physics. In: Frieden BR, Gatenby RA, eds. Exploratory Data Analysis Using Fisher Information. Springer; 2007:119-154.

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. Novel System Calculates and “Prints” Patient Specific Drug Doses. IFLScience.

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. Aviation Rulemaking: Incomplete Implementation Impaired FAA’s Reform Efforts. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jang SH. Interpretation of Extended Techniques in Unaccompanied Flute Works by East-Asian Composers: Isang Yun, Toru Takemitsu, and Kazuo Fukushima. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati; 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

Pilon M. A Different Way of Taking Off at J.F.K. New York Times. April 15, 2013:D8.

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