How to format your references using the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bloom BR. On the particularity of pathogens. Nature. 2000 Aug 17;406(6797):760–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilder-Smith A, Gubler DJ. PUBLIC HEALTH. Dengue vaccines at a crossroad. Science. 2015 Nov 6;350(6261):626–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reynolds AM, Leprêtre L, Bohan DA. Movement patterns of Tenebrio beetles demonstrate empirically that correlated-random-walks have similitude with a Lévy walk. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov 7;3:3158.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ramsey IS, Moran MM, Chong JA, Clapham DE. A voltage-gated proton-selective channel lacking the pore domain. Nature. 2006 Apr 27;440(7088):1213–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox I, Gaudard MA, Stephens ML. Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Faure G. The Transantarctic Mountains: Rocks, Ice, Meteorites and Water. Mensing TM, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. XXVI, 804 p. 307 illus., 182 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Frederico E, Parente JG. Determinants of Relationship Continuity between Fashion Retailers and Suppliers in Brazil. In: Swoboda B, Morschett D, Rudolph T, Schnedlitz P, Schramm-Klein H, editors. European Retail Research. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag; 2009. p. 87–115. (European Retail Research).

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 Paediatrics and Child Health.

Blog post

Fang J. Lack of Food Competition May Explain the Diversity of African Savanna Herbivores [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lack-food-competition-may-explain-diversity-african-savanna-herbivores/

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. Insights Into CETA’s In-School Youth Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Sep. Report No.: HRD-82-116.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lowe C. A correlational study of the relationship between Learner Autonomy and academic performance [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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

Wogan J. Accommodations; Equestrian Escape. New York Times. 2016 Nov 15;ST3.

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	Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
Abbreviation	J. Paediatr. Child Health
ISSN (print)	1034-4810
ISSN (online)	1440-1754
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health