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

O’Garra, A. Brigitte Askonas (1923-2013). Nature 2013, 494, 37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ottino, J.M.; Lueptow, R.M. Materials Science. On Mixing and Demixing. Science 2008, 319, 912–913.

A journal article with 3 authors

LaDeau, S.L.; Kilpatrick, A.M.; Marra, P.P. West Nile Virus Emergence and Large-Scale Declines of North American Bird Populations. Nature 2007, 447, 710–713.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lipford, J.R.; Smith, G.T.; Chi, Y.; Deshaies, R.J. A Putative Stimulatory Role for Activator Turnover in Gene Expression. Nature 2005, 438, 113–116.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Breitmaier, E. Vom NMR-Spektrum Zur Strukturformel Organischer Verbindungen; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2005; ISBN 9783527662296.

An edited book

Bogdandy, A. von Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; Wolfrum, R., Ed.; World Court Digest, Formerly Fontes Iuris Gentium; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 4; ISBN 9783540874669.

A chapter in an edited book

Burger, P.; Bouquet, A.; Striem, M.J. Grape Breeding. In Breeding Plantation Tree Crops: Tropical Species; Jain, S.M., Priyadarshan, P.M., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2009; pp. 161–189 ISBN 9780387711997.

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

Hamilton, K. Explainer: Why Do We Get Butterflies In Our Stomachs? (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 Smartphone Data: Information and Issues Regarding Surreptitious Tracking Apps That Can Facilitate Stalking; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2016;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Neal, L. What’s in Your Toolbox?: Examining Tool Choices at Two Middle and Late Woodland-Period Sites on Florida’s Central Gulf Coast. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida: Tampa, FL, 2016.

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

McKINLEY, J.C., Jr Charges In Threats To Lawyers Suing Fox. New York Times 2017, B2.

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