How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Koenig R. COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans. Science. 2000;289:1863–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Doulatov S, Daley GQ. Development. A stem cell perspective on cellular engineering. Science. 2013;342:700–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Taylor AH, Allen JI, Clark PA. Extraction of a weak climatic signal by an ecosystem. Nature. 2002;416:629–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Singer BS, Hoffman KA, Coe RS, Brown LL, Jicha BR, Pringle MS, et al. Structural and temporal requirements for geomagnetic field reversal deduced from lava flows. Nature. 2005;434:633–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Penner T, Lopez DC. De-Introducing the New Testament. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Hagoel L. From the Margins to New Ground: An Autoethnography of Passage between Disciplines. Kalekin-Fishman D, editor. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Brennan MF, Antonescu CR, Alektiar KM, Maki RG. Liposarcoma. In: Antonescu CR, Alektiar KM, Maki RG, editors. Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 105–24.

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 Treatment Options in Pediatrics.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Stroke Patients Recovering After Receiving Stem Cell Therapy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stroke-patients-recovering-after-receiving-stem-cell-therapy/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Alternative Methods for Collecting Airport Passenger Facility Charges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Feb. Report No.: GAO-13-262R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Arab AA. Finite Element Modeling of Pretensioned Concrete Girders: A Methodological Approach with Applications in Large Strands and End Zone Cracking [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2012.

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

1. Marx L. Friends, Artists and Partners. New York Times. 2014 Dec 21;ST25.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Treatment Options in Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Curr. Treat. Options Pediatr.
ISSN (online)	2198-6088
Scope