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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neurosurgery: 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Loder N: Director of Wellcome centre resigns over damning report. Nature 404:696, 2000
A journal article with 2 authors
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Gelbart WM, Knobler CM: Virology. Pressurized viruses. Science 323:1682–1683, 2009
A journal article with 3 authors
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Kasuya A, Sakabe J-I, Tokura Y: Potential application of in vivo imaging of impaired lymphatic duct to evaluate the severity of pressure ulcer in mouse model. Sci Rep 4:4173, 2014
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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van der Meijde M, Marone F, Giardini D, van der Lee S: Seismic evidence for water deep in Earth’s upper mantle. Science 300:1556–1558, 2003

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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Bajpai P: Environmentally Friendly Production of Pulp and Paper. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010
An edited book
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Natale A, Al-Ahmad A, Wang PJ, DiMarco J (eds): Cardiac Electrophysiology: Clinical Case Review. London: Springer, 2011
A chapter in an edited book
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Vespucci MT, Bertocchi M, Tomasgard A, Innorta M: Integration of Wind Power Production in a Conventional Power Production System: Stochastic Models and Performance Measures, in Pardalos PM , Rebennack S , Pereira MVF , Iliadis NA , Pappu V (eds): Handbook of Wind Power Systems, Energy Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, pp 129–152

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 Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.

Blog post
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Hale T: Human Doctors Are Still Better Than Online Symptom Checkers. IFLScience:2016

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: Technology Transfers: Benefits of Cooperative R&D Agreements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994

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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Fonfa SL: The impact of increased security on the employment options and lives of people with severe disabilities. 2008

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
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Billard M: Get a Little Closer To the Sun. New York Times:E5, 2010

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference 2.
This sentence cites two references 3,4.
This sentence cites four references 3,5,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics
AbbreviationJ. Neurosurg. Pediatr.
ISSN (print)1933-0707
ISSN (online)1933-0715
ScopeGeneral Medicine

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