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]

B. Chazelle, Computer science. Coding and computing join forces, Science 317 (2007) 1691–1692.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Shao, R.S. Hegde, Cell Biology. Local synthesis and disposal, Science 346 (2014) 701–702.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Kessler, R. Halitschke, I.T. Baldwin, Silencing the jasmonate cascade: induced plant defenses and insect populations, Science 305 (2004) 665–668.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.T. Frank, B. Petrie, J.S. Choi, W.C. Leggett, Trophic cascades in a formerly cod-dominated ecosystem, Science 308 (2005) 1621–1623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.D. Holmes, Great Myths of Education and Learning, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

R.-E. Precup, S. Kovács, S. Preitl, E.M. Petriu, eds., Applied Computational Intelligence in Engineering and Information Technology: Revised and Selected Papers from the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics SACI 2011, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Bianchi, L. Gianni, Pertuzumab – a HER-2 Dimerisation Inhibitor – for the Treatment of Breast and Other Cancers, in: M. Sibilia, C.C. Zielinski, R. Bartsch, T.W. Grunt (Eds.), Drugs for HER-2-Positive Breast Cancer, Springer, Basel, 2011: pp. 73–90.

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 Otorhinolaryngology Extra.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Watch Live As SpaceX Launches Its Next Rocket And Attempts Its Third Barge Landing, IFLScience (2016).

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, NASA: Medium Launch Transition Strategy Leverages Ongoing Investments but Is Not Without Risk, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.K. Mannar, Hri-Tech Consultants, LLC, Doctoral dissertation, 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]

C.J. Chivers, SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; Erin Arvedlund contributed reporting from Moscow for this article, U.S. Investigative Journalist Is Shot to Death in Russia, New York Times (2004) A4.

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