How to format your references using the Jornal de Pediatria citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Jornal de Pediatria. 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

Gershon D. Vaccine centres unite specialists in the battle against infectious diseases. Nature. 2000 Dec 7;408(6813):753–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conard NJ, Bolus M. Anthropology. Chronicling modern human’s arrival in Europe. Science. 2015 May 15;348(6236):754–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee J, Park J, Choi C. Identification of phenotype deterministic genes using systemic analysis of transcriptional response. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 19;4:4413.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Suydam IT, Snow CD, Pande VS, Boxer SG. Electric fields at the active site of an enzyme: direct comparison of experiment with theory. Science. 2006 Jul 14;313(5784):200–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bruen GO. WHOIS Running the Internet. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Cai Z, Tong H, Kang Z, Liu Y, editors. Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems: 5th International Symposium, ISICA 2010, Wuhan, China, October 22-24, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XIII, 289 p. 117 illus. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 107).

A chapter in an edited book

Cooper KD, Harvey TJ, Waterman T. An Adaptive Strategy for Inline Substitution. In: Hendren L, editor. Compiler Construction: 17th International Conference, CC 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 69–84. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Jornal de Pediatria.

Blog post

Andrew E. Trial Of Stem Cell Transplants Yields Positive Results For Patients With MS [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/trial-stem-cell-transplants-yields-positive-results-patients-ms/

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

Government Accountability Office. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Sep. Report No.: GAO-08-1161T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ramos J. Surviving Childhood Bullying: Impact on Psychosocial Well-Being in Adulthood [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

Dorman JL. Tessa Kiros, Food Writer, on France’s Sway. New York Times. 2017 Mar 15;TR2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Jornal de Pediatria
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. (Rio J.)
ISSN (print)	0021-7557
ISSN (online)	1678-4782
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health