How to format your references using the International Journal of Neonatal Screening citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Neonatal Screening. 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

Stock, J. Geophysics. Hotspots Come Unstuck. Science 2003, 301, 1059–1060.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goodell, M.A.; Rando, T.A. Stem Cells and Healthy Aging. Science 2015, 350, 1199–1204.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nozaki, T.; Kato, Y.; Suzuki, K. Late Jurassic Ocean Anoxic Event: Evidence from Voluminous Sulphide Deposition and Preservation in the Panthalassa. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1889.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lunt, D.J.; Foster, G.L.; Haywood, A.M.; Stone, E.J. Late Pliocene Greenland Glaciation Controlled by a Decline in Atmospheric CO2 Levels. Nature 2008, 454, 1102–1105.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kolb, R.W. Sovereign Debt; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118267073.

An edited book

Tuschmann, W. Moduli Spaces of Riemannian Metrics; Wraith, D.J., Ed.; Oberwolfach Seminars; Springer: Basel, 2015; Vol. 46; ISBN 9783034809474.

A chapter in an edited book

Gułajski, Ł.; Grela, K. The Influence of the Anionic Counter-Ion on the Activity of Ammonium Substituted Hoveyda-Type Olefin Metathesis Catalysts in Aqueous Media. In Green Metathesis Chemistry; Dragutan, V., Demonceau, A., Dragutan, I., Finkelshtein, E.S., Eds.; NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2010; pp. 49–56 ISBN 9789048134311.

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 International Journal of Neonatal Screening.

Blog post

Davis, J. The Dark Web Is Actually More Of An Archipelago Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-dark-web-is-actually-more-of-an-archipelago/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Teacher Quality: Sustained Coordination among Key Federal Education Programs Could Enhance State Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Weaver, P.Q. Relationships between Leadership Practices of Founders and Successors and Economic Performance of Select Family Businesses. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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

Brantley, B. There’s Lust in Her Heart, for Language. New York Times 2017, C1.

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	International Journal of Neonatal Screening
Abbreviation	Int. J. Neonatal Screen.
ISSN (online)	2409-515X
Scope