How to format your references using the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology Case Reports. 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]

B. Trivedi, Learning from the elite, Nature. 466 (2010) S4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.L. Oldham, J. Chen, Crystal structure of the maltose transporter in a pretranslocation intermediate state, Science. 332 (2011) 1202–1205.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Muir, C.C. Fleming, C. Schlötterer, Species status of hybridizing oaks, Nature. 405 (2000) 1016.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Hu, Z. Feng, A.K. Teresky, A.J. Levine, p53 regulates maternal reproduction through LIF, Nature. 450 (2007) 721–724.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.L. Brauer, Safety and Health for Engineers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

T. Grune, ed., Reactions, Processes: Oxidants and Antioxidant Defense Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Patel, Non-surgical Root Canal Treatment, in: B. Patel (Ed.), Endodontic Treatment, Retreatment, and Surgery: Mastering Clinical Practice, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 71–100.

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 Otorhinolaryngology Case Reports.

Blog post

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J. O`Callaghan, Watch Live As SpaceX Attempts To Launch And Land Its Latest Rocket Again Today, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-spacex-attempts-launch-its-latest-rocket-again-today/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Treasury Electronic Signature Concept, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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S.L. Raynor, A Critical Quantitative Examination of the Relationship between Constructs of Engagement and Latino College Completion, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

B. Protess, Lawyer Is Now Regulating Banking Industry He Has Spent a Career Protecting, New York Times. (2017) A20.

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 Otorhinolaryngology Case Reports
ISSN (print)	2588-9109
Scope