How to format your references using the International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology. 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. Martin J. Perspective: Don’t foul the water. Nature. 2011;474:S17.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dufour SC, Felbeck H. Sulphide mining by the superextensile foot of symbiotic thyasirid bivalves. Nature. 2003;426:65–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chave J, Alonso D, Etienne RS. Theoretical biology: comparing models of species abundance. Nature. 2006;441:E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Juengst ET, Binstock RH, Mehlman MJ, Post SG. Aging. Antiaging research and the need for public dialogue. Science. 2003;299:1323.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ralph D, Graham P. MMS: Technologies, Usage and Business Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

1. Fuhr N, Quaresma P, Gonçalves T, Larsen B, Balog K, Macdonald C, et al., editors. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction: 7th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2016, Évora, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Colombo J, Arora R, DePace NL, Vinik AI. Autonomic (Parasympathetic and Sympathetic) Assessment. In: Arora R, DePace NL, Vinik AI, editors. Clinical Autonomic Dysfunction: Measurement, Indications, Therapies, and Outcomes. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 77–84.

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 Pediatric Endocrinology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Massive New Study Suggests The Pill Has Prevented 200,000 Cases of Womb Cancer [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/massive-new-study-suggests-pill-prevented-200000-cases-womb-cancer/

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. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Inspection Management System Lacks Adequate Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Nov. Report No.: RCED-90-36.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hintz L. Fighting for Us, Inside and Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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. Simon L. In the Blink of an Eye, a Vision of Disaster. New York Times. 2007 Sep 4;F6.

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 Pediatric Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pediatr. Endocrinol.
ISSN (online)	1687-9856
Scope