How to format your references using the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. 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

Begley CG. Six red flags for suspect work. Nature. 2013 May 23;497(7450):433–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishioka K, Reinberg D. Transcription. Switching partners in a regulatory tango. Science. 2001 Dec 21;294(5551):2497–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li M, Butka E, Wang X. Comprehensive quantification of triacylglycerols in soybean seeds by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry with multiple neutral loss scans. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 10;4:6581.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Petri G, Expert P, Jensen HJ, Polak JW. Entangled communities and spatial synchronization lead to criticality in urban traffic. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1798.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moreau E, Adali T. Blind Identification and Separation of Complex-Valued Signals. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Basedow J, Magnus U, Wolfrum R, editors. The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2009 & 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. IX, 205 p. 5 illus. (Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs, International Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs at the University of Hamburg; vol. 23).

A chapter in an edited book

Bronfman R. ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS IN ISRAEL. In: Linkov I, Kiker GA, Wenning RJ, editors. Environmental Security in Harbors and Coastal Areas: Management Using Comparative Risk Assessment and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 81–4. (NATO Security through Science Series).

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 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016. The LHC Is Starting To Produce Charmed Twins More Than Singles.

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. Intellectual Property: Deposits of Biological Materials in Support of Certain Patent Applications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Oct. Report No.: GAO-01-49.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Charles JG. African American Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Learning in Mathematics: A Case Study of Parent-Teacher Collaboration [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 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

Oestreich JR. Is It Really Opera? That’s Beside the Point. New York Times. 2017 May 5;C6.

In-text citations

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

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 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Adolesc. Gynecol.
ISSN (print)	1083-3188
ISSN (online)	1873-4332
Scope	General Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health