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]

Rice SA. Interfering for the good of a chemical reaction. Nature 2001;409:422–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Okawa Y, Aono M. Nanoscale control of chain polymerization. Nature 2001;409:683–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Haig J, Nott J, Reichart G-J. Australian tropical cyclone activity lower than at any time over the past 550-1,500 years. Nature 2014;505:667–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dalton AB, Collins S, Muñoz E, Razal JM, Ebron VH, Ferraris JP, et al. Super-tough carbon-nanotube fibres. Nature 2003;423:703.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Münch V. Patente, Marken, Design von A bis Z. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Capasso R. Farmacognosia applicata: Controllo di qualità delle droghe vegetali. Milano: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gaševic D, Djuric D, Devedžic V. Modeling Spaces. In: Djuric D, Ga¿evic D, editors. Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 157–73.

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. Explore A Mystery Structure Found At A Stone Age Dump Through This 3D Model. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/explore-a-mystery-structure-found-at-a-stone-age-dump-through-this-3d-model/ (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 Programs for Education of the Handicapped: Issues and Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chamberlain AD. Policy and Behavior: Essays in Applied Microeconomics. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2014.

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]

Walsh MW. Failed Talks Raise Specter of Biggest Default in Puerto Rico Crisis. New York Times 2016:A15.

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
Scope