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]

Gewin V. Count on it. Nature 2007;445:946–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Davidson K, Smith N. A massive cool dust torus around eta Carinae? Nature 2000;405:532.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

van Zuilen MA, Lepland A, Arrhenius G. Reassessing the evidence for the earliest traces of life. Nature 2002;418:627–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Headon DJ, Emmal SA, Ferguson BM, Tucker AS, Justice MJ, Sharpe PT, et al. Gene defect in ectodermal dysplasia implicates a death domain adapter in development. Nature 2001;414:913–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yin G. Clinical Trial Design: Bayesian and Frequentist Adaptive Methods. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Balla T, Wymann M, York JD, editors. Phosphoinositides II: The Diverse Biological Functions. vol. 59. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lachapelle J-M, Goossens A. Photopatch Testing. In: Maibach HI, Ring J, Darsow U, Rustemeyer T, editors. Patch Testing and Prick Testing: A Practical Guide Official Publication of the ICDRG, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 83–8.

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]

Andrew E. 7 Animals Saved From Near-Extinction. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/7-animals-saved-near-extinction/ (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: Preliminary Views on Options for Additional Fiscal Oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Olson BA. Problem Management: A System Engineering Management Framework. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2012.

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]

Saslow L. The Power of the Adolescent Pen. New York Times 2006:14LI8.

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