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. Goldemberg J. Ethanol for a sustainable energy future. Science. 2007;315:808–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Williams LE, Bargh JA. Experiencing physical warmth promotes interpersonal warmth. Science. 2008;322:606–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Baskin A, Sadeghpour HR, Král P. Correlated diskoid-like electronic states. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5913.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kendall J-M, Stuart GW, Ebinger CJ, Bastow ID, Keir D. Magma-assisted rifting in Ethiopia. Nature. 2005;433:146–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. MacIsaac B, Langton R. Gas Turbine Propulsion Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Iliopoulos CS, Smyth WF, editors. Combinatorial Algorithms: 21st International Workshop, IWOCA 2010, London, UK, July 26-28, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Druguet E, Rahimi A, Carreras J, Castaño LM, Sánchez-Sorribes I. The Geoheritage of Kerdous Inlier (Western Anti-Atlas, Morocco): Pages of Earth History in an Outstanding Landscape. In: Errami E, Brocx M, Semeniuk V, editors. From Geoheritage to Geoparks: Case Studies from Africa and Beyond. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 81–90.

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. Taub B. Beer Helps Console Snails Before Being Executed For Science [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beer-helps-console-snails-before-being-executed-science/

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: FAA’s Use and Management of Communications Resources. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jan. Report No.: IMTEC-90-8.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nye KM. Crème de Pêche [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Wagner J. Once Damaged Goods, Mets Reliever Returns to the Top Shelf. New York Times. 2016 Oct 5;B10.

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