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

Nisbet E. Heavenly phenomena. Nature. 2001 Apr 5;410(6829):635.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pollard PJ, Ratcliffe PJ. Cancer. Puzzling patterns of predisposition. Science. 2009 Apr 10;324(5924):192–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kurtovic A, Widmer A, Dickson BJ. A single class of olfactory neurons mediates behavioural responses to a Drosophila sex pheromone. Nature. 2007 Mar 29;446(7135):542–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bergeron V V, Bonn D, Martin JY, Vovelle L. Controlling droplet deposition with polymer additives. Nature. 2000 Jun 15;405(6788):772–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lincoln NB, Kneebone II, Macniven JAB, Morris RC. Psychological Management of Stroke. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Senn HJ, Kapp U, Otto F, editors. Cancer Prevention II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. XX, 252 p. 28 illus., 14 illus. in color. (Recent Results in Cancer Research; vol. 181).

A chapter in an edited book

Edwards AC, Walker RL, Maskell P, Watson CA, Rees RM, Stockdale EA, et al. Improving Bioavailability of Phosphate Rock for Organic Farming. In: Lichtfouse E, editor. Genetic Engineering, Biofertilisation, Soil Quality and Organic Farming. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 99–117. (Sustainable Agriculture Reviews).

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

Andrew E. Universal Snake Venom Antidote On The Horizon. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Federal R&D Laboratories. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Feb. Report No.: RCED/NSIAD-96-78R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ireland KS. The Role Family Communication Patterns Play in Shaping People’s Responses and Perceived Outcomes to Boundary Turbulence via Privacy Breaches in Their Personal Relationships [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

Schaub M. Rich Is Rabbit. New York Times. 2017 Jul 13;BR11.

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

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