How to format your references using the Journal of Pediatric Health Care citation style

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

Krause, D. W. (2001). Fossil molar from a Madagascan marsupial. Nature, 412(6846), 497–498.

A journal article with 2 authors

Audet, P., & Bürgmann, R. (2014). Possible control of subduction zone slow-earthquake periodicity by silica enrichment. Nature, 510(7505), 389–392.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sims, D. W., Andrews, P. L., & Young, J. Z. (2000). Stomach rinsing in rays. Nature, 404(6778), 566.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Kural, C., Kim, H., Syed, S., Goshima, G., Gelfand, V. I., & Selvin, P. R. (2005). Kinesin and dynein move a peroxisome in vivo: a tug-of-war or coordinated movement? Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5727), 1469–1472.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Etheridge, D. (2010). Excel® Data Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Albers, S., Alt, H., & Näher, S. (Eds.). (2009). Efficient Algorithms: Essays Dedicated to Kurt Mehlhorn on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Vol. 5760). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Benjamin, R. A. (2015). The Challenge of Galactic Cartography: Lessons from the Milky Way. In K. Freeman, B. Elmegreen, D. Block, & M. Woolway (Eds.), Lessons from the Local Group: A Conference in honour of David Block and Bruce Elmegreen (pp. 53–62). Springer International Publishing.

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 Health Care.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, August 6). Latest Beautiful Photo From NASA Shows The Moon And The ISS. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2016). Information Technology: Uncertainty Remains about the Bureau’s Readiness for a Key Decennial Census Test (GAO-17-221T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vestergaard, E. V. (2015). The shadow in Latvian mythological legends: A Jungian perspective [Doctoral dissertation]. Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Dominus, I. by S. (2014, January 24). ‘My Moves Speak for Themselves.’ New York Times, MM10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Krause, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Audet & Bürgmann, 2014; Krause, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Audet & Bürgmann, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kural et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pediatric Health Care
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Health Care
ISSN (print)	0891-5245
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health