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

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

Smartt, S. J. (2015). Astrophysics: A twist in the tale of γ-ray bursts. Nature, 523(7559), 164–166.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ewald, A. J., & Egeblad, M. (2014). Cancer: Sugar-coated cell signalling. Nature, 511(7509), 298–299.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cox, D., Meyers, E., & Sinha, P. (2004). Contextually evoked object-specific responses in human visual cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5667), 115–117.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sancho, D., Joffre, O. P., Keller, A. M., Rogers, N. C., Martínez, D., Hernanz-Falcón, P., et al. (2009). Identification of a dendritic cell receptor that couples sensing of necrosis to immunity. Nature, 458(7240), 899–903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hickey, R. (2013). A Dictionary of Varieties of English. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Günlük, O., & Woeginger, G. J. (Eds.). (2011). Integer Programming and Combinatoral Optimization: 15th International Conference, IPCO 2011, New York, NY, USA, June 15-17, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6655). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bussolati, G., Maletta, F., Asioli, S., Annaratone, L., Sapino, A., & Marchiò, C. (2014). “To Be or Not to Be in a Good Shape”: Diagnostic and Clinical Value of Nuclear Shape Irregularities in Thyroid and Breast Cancer. In E. C. Schirmer & J. I. de las Heras (Eds.), Cancer Biology and the Nuclear Envelope: Recent Advances May Elucidate Past Paradoxes (pp. 101–121). New York, NY: Springer.

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 Neuropsychology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, June 12). Why You Should Go Meat-Free For One Day A Year, According To Science. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-meatfree-one-day-year-according-science/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1988). A Judgmental Call: Measuring the Safety of the Airlines (No. 135528). Washington, DC: 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

Munn, J. E. (2017). Information Technology Certification Training Implementation: Exploratory Case Study of Air Force and Civilian Leaders Experiences (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Fausset, R. (2016, July 3). Black Man’s Shooting Recalls Southern Wounds. New York Times, p. A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smartt 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ewald and Egeblad 2014; Smartt 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ewald and Egeblad 2014)
Three or more authors: (Sancho et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Neuropsychol.
ISSN (print)	2199-2681
ISSN (online)	2199-2673
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