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

Cohen, J. (2000). AIDS MEETING: South African Leader Declines to Join the Chorus on HIV and AIDS. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5477), 222a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haga, S. B., & Venter, J. C. (2003). Genetics. FDA races in wrong direction. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5632), 466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tschöp, M., Smiley, D. L., & Heiman, M. L. (2000). Ghrelin induces adiposity in rodents. Nature, 407(6806), 908–913.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yen, T. J., Padilla, W. J., Fang, N., Vier, D. C., Smith, D. R., Pendry, J. B., et al. (2004). Terahertz magnetic response from artificial materials. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5663), 1494–1496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ma, A. D., Roberts, H. R., & Escobar, M. A. (2012). Hemophilia and Hemostasis. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Nowicka, M., & Šerbedžija, V. (Eds.). (2016). Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Berezovsky, J., Lau, W. H., Ghosh, S., Stephens, J., Stern, N. P., & Awschalom, D. D. (2007). Spin Coherence in Semiconductors. In M. E. Flatté & I. Ţifrea (Eds.), Manipulating Quantum Coherence in Solid State Systems (pp. 130–170). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Davis, J. (2015, September 29). Stem Cell Treatment Used To Cure Age-Related Blindness. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cell-treatment-used-trial-cure-age-related-blindness/. 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. (2004). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Major Management Issues Facing DOD’s Development and Fielding Efforts (No. GAO-04-530T). 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

Bai, S. (2008). Identification and Characterization of Senescence-Associated Proteins in Petunia Corollas (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Barron, J. (2017, September 26). Harlem Rezoning Proposal Would Create Memorial To African Burial Ground. New York Times, p. A28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cohen 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Cohen 2000; Haga and Venter 2003).

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

Two authors: (Haga and Venter 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yen et al. 2004)

About the journal

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

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