How to format your references using the European Journal of Paediatric Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Paediatric Neurology (EJPN). 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

Lundgren P. Earth science: Fertile fields for seismicity. Nature 2014;509(7501):436–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratnieks FLW., Carreck NL. Ecology. Clarity on honey bee collapse? Science 2010;327(5962):152–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alley RB., Fahnestock M., Joughin I. Climate change. Understanding glacier flow in changing times. Science 2008;322(5904):1061–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Su R-Q., Lai Y-C., Wang X., Do Y. Uncovering hidden nodes in complex networks in the presence of noise. Sci Rep 2014;4:3944.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willan AR., Briggs AH. Statistical Analysis of Cost-effectiveness Data. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Sobhani-Tehrani E. Fault Diagnosis of Nonlinear Systems Using a Hybrid Approach. vol. 383. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Hafez AI., Hassanien AE., Fahmy AA. Testing Community Detection Algorithms: A Closer Look at Datasets. In: Panda M, Dehuri S, and Wang G-N, editors. Social Networking: Mining, Visualization, and Security. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 85–99.

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 European Journal of Paediatric Neurology.

Blog post

Andrews R. Sitting Might Not Be That Bad For You After All. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sitting-wont-kill-you-after-all/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Governmentwide Strategy Needed to Better Manage Overlapping Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meluzzi D. Computational Analysis of DNA Interactions to Investigate the Spatial Organization of Chromatin. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2013.

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

Oestreich JR. From 1687, Early Sounds in All Their Vibrancy. New York Times 2017:C6.

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	European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Paediatr. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	1090-3798
ISSN (online)	1532-2130
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health