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]

Said R. Did Nile flooding sink two ancient cities? Nature 2002;415:37–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Breidenbach MA, Brunger AT. Substrate recognition strategy for botulinum neurotoxin serotype A. Nature 2004;432:925–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Young IR, Zieger S, Babanin AV. Global trends in wind speed and wave height. Science 2011;332:451–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Donoghue PCJ, Bengtson S, Dong X-P, Gostling NJ, Huldtgren T, Cunningham JA, et al. Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos. Nature 2006;442:680–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Castillo E, Cobo A, Jubete F, Pruneda RE. Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.

An edited book

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Nilsson F. Understanding Competitive Advantage: The Importance of Strategic Congruence and Integrated Control. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

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Iwarsson S. Housing Adaptations: Current Practices FutureChallenges. In: Söderback I, editor. International Handbook of Occupational Therapy Interventions, New York, NY: Springer; 2009, p. 63–9.

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

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Andrew E. Hovercraft Coming To Market in 2017. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/hovercraft-coming-market-2017/ (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

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Government Accountability Office. Health Information Systems: National Practitioner Data Bank Continues to Experience Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Rosenberg EL. Learning to live: The clinical importance of first-person accounts of recovery from anorexia nervosa. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

Sokolove M. Following the Money. New York Times 2017:AR22.

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

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