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

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

R. Froese, Fishery reform slips through the net, Nature 475 (2011) 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I. Percec, M.S. Bartolomei, Genetics. Do X chromosomes set boundaries?, Science 295 (2002) 287–288.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.M. Marinova, O. Aharonson, E. Asphaug, Mega-impact formation of the Mars hemispheric dichotomy, Nature 453 (2008) 1216–1219.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.P. Noonan, M. Hofreiter, D. Smith, J.R. Priest, N. Rohland, G. Rabeder, J. Krause, J.C. Detter, S. Pääbo, E.M. Rubin, Genomic sequencing of Pleistocene cave bears, Science 309 (2005) 597–599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Allerton, Principles of Flight Simulation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

P. Kabisatpathy, Fault Diagnosis of Analog Integrated Circuits, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.H.J. Perälä, J.P. Paananen, M. Mukhopadhyay, J.-P. Laulajainen, A Novel Testbed for P2P Networks, in: T. Magedanz, A. Gavras, N.H. Thanh, J.S. Chase (Eds.), Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities: 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 69–83.

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 Extra.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Baby Sea Turtles Starved Of Oxygen By Beach Microbes, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-sea-turtles-starved-oxygen-beach-microbes/ (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, Federal Research: Information on DOE’s Laboratory-Directed R&D Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G. Abedin, Exploring the potential of art-based education for adolescents with learning disabilities: A case study of engagement in learning through the arts, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

A. Franaszek, Why Czeslaw Milosz still matters, New York Times (2017) 0.

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 Extra
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pediatr. Otorhinolaryngol. Extra
ISSN (print)	1871-4048
Scope	Otorhinolaryngology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health