How to format your references using the International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 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]

Gogotsi Y. Materials science. High-temperature rubber made from carbon nanotubes. Science 2010;330:1332–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yewdell JW, Ince WL. Virology. Frameshifting to PA-X influenza. Science 2012;337:164–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Norell MA, Makovicky PJ, Currie PJ. Palaeontology. The beaks of ostrich dinosaurs. Nature 2001;412:873–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shi Z, Zhang Y, Cui X, Zhuang S, Wu B, Dong X, et al. High-temperature continuous-wave laser realized in hollow microcavities. Sci Rep 2014;4:7180.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cohen C. Business Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Nurminsky D, editor. Selective Sweep. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Da T, Li Z, Feng B. A Video Steganalysis Algorithm for H.264/AVC Based on the Markov Features. In: Huang D-S, Jo K-H, Hussain A, editors. Intelligent Computing Theories and Methodologies: 11th International Conference, ICIC 2015, Fuzhou, China, August 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 47–59.

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 Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Tech Start-Up Creates Environmentally Friendly And Meat-Free Cheeseburgers. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/tech-start-create-environmentally-friendly-and-meat-free-cheeseburgers/ (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. Mass Transit: Status of New Starts Transit Projects With Full Funding Grant Agreements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Grace J. A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between TEAS V and Success in Licensed Practical Nursing Students. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Williams J. Robert Caro Nears End Of Research on L.B.J. New York Times 2017:C3.

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 Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pediatr. Adolesc. Med.
ISSN (print)	2352-6467
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