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. Sovacool BK. Diversity: Energy studies need social science. Nature. 2014;511:529–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Beg AA, Scheiffele P. Neuroscience. SUMO wrestles the synapse. Science. 2006;311:962–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kim HK, Hanson GW, Geller DA. Chemistry. Are gold clusters in RF fields hot or not? Science. 2013;340:441–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kosaka T, Miyajima A, Nagata H, Maeda T, Kikuchi E, Oya M. Human castration resistant prostate cancer rather prefer to decreased 5α-reductase activity. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1268.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Eynon J. The Design Manager’s Handbook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

1. Sun Y, Behal A, Chung C-KR, editors. New Development in Robot Vision. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Rodgers MT, Armentrout PB. Discriminating Properties of Alkali Metal Ions Towards the Constituents of Proteins and Nucleic Acids. Conclusions from Gas-Phase and Theoretical Studies. In: Sigel A, Sigel H, Sigel RKO, editors. The Alkali Metal Ions: Their Role for Life. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 103–31.

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. Hale T. Pouring Sulfuric Acid Onto Toilet Roll Is Oddly Satisfying [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/pouring-sulfuric-acid-onto-toilet-roll-is-oddly-satisfying/

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 Research and Development: FAA Could Improve How It Develops Its Portfolio and Reports Its Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017 Apr. Report No.: GAO-17-372.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Capobianco VJ. Effect of slot height variation on the aerodynamic performance of a circulation control airfoil: A CFD analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Kishkovsky S. Where the Curriculum Is Hair-Raising. New York Times. 2017 Aug 21;C2.

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

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