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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of 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	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

Bruneau BG (2008) The developmental genetics of congenital heart disease. Nature 451:943–948

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu-Baer F, Baer R (2001) Effect of DNA damage on a BRCA1 complex. Nature 414:36

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhagat D, Samanta SK, Bhattacharya S (2013) Efficient management of fruit pests by pheromone nanogels. Sci Rep 3:1294

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nunes SS, Maijub JG, Krishnan L, et al (2013) Generation of a functional liver tissue mimic using adipose stromal vascular fraction cell-derived vasculatures. Sci Rep 3:2141

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shelton T (2013) Business Models for the Social Mobile Cloud. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Saaksvuori A (2008) Product Lifecycle Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kim R, Albert LR (2015) Knowledge for Teaching Mathematics Category I: Mathematics Curriculum Knowledge. In: Albert LR (ed) Mathematics Teaching and Learning: South Korean Elementary Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 63–76

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 Pediatrics.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Brain-Eating Amoeba Is Hungry For Your Neurotransmitters. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brain-eating-amoeba-hungry-neurotransmitters/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1973) Protest of Air Force Contract Award. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Parsons JR (2010) Throwing a wrench in the translational machinery: Discovery of RNA ligands by fluorescence techniques. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Strauss B (2016) Knicks’ Rose May Be in Court, Not on It, When Team Begins Preseason. New York Times B15

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	European Journal of Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Pediatr.
ISSN (print)	0340-6199
ISSN (online)	1432-1076
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health