How to format your references using the Italian Journal of Pediatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Italian Journal of Pediatrics. 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. Grayson M. Ageing. Nature. 2012;492:S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chittka L, Peng F. Neuroscience. Caffeine boosts bees’ memories. Science. 2013;339:1157–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Froese T, Iizuka H, Ikegami T. Embodied social interaction constitutes social cognition in pairs of humans: a minimalist virtual reality experiment. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3672.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wan X-Y, Zheng L-L, Gao P-F, Yang X-X, Li C-M, Li YF, et al. Real-time light scattering tracking of gold nanoparticles- bioconjugated respiratory syncytial virus infecting HEp-2 cells. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hannam J. What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Lee C-F. Statistics for Business and Financial Economics. 3rd ed. 2013. Lee JC, Lee AC, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Islam SMN, Watanapalachaikul S. Market Efficiency Models and Tests. In: Watanapalachaikul S, editor. Empirical Finance: Modelling and Analysis of Emerging Financial and Stock Markets. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2005. p. 53–63.

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 Italian Journal of Pediatrics.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Conservationists Rescue Rare White Orangutan In Borneo [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/conservationists-rescue-rare-white-orangutan-in-borneo/

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. Financial Management: Amtrak’s Route Profitability Schedules Need Improvement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Jul. Report No.: GAO-02-912R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Victoria FC. One on One [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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. Wagner J. Forget the Waist; It’s More About the Wrist. New York Times. 2016 Sep 29;B10.

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	Italian Journal of Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Ital. J. Pediatr.
ISSN (online)	1824-7288
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