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

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

Fields BD. Cosmology. A census of cosmic matter. Science. 2001 Oct 19;294(5542):529–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vanag VK, Epstein IR. Inwardly rotating spiral waves in a reaction-diffusion system. Science. 2001 Oct 26;294(5543):835–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koschowitz MC, Fischer C, Sander M. Evolution. Beyond the rainbow. Science. 2014 Oct 24;346(6208):416–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Unlu M, Hashemi MR, Berry CW, Li S, Yang SH, Jarrahi M. Switchable scattering meta-surfaces for broadband terahertz modulation. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul 16;4:5708.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavagnini I, Magno F, Seraglia R, Traldi P. Quantitative Applications of Mass Spectrometry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Lollino G, Manconi A, Guzzetti F, Culshaw M, Bobrowsky P, Luino F, editors. Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5: Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XXXV, 1400 p. 748 illus., 616 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Wan M, Jönsson A, Wang C, Li L, Yang Y. A Random Indexing Approach for Web User Clustering and Web Prefetching. In: Cao L, Huang JZ, Bailey J, Koh YS, Luo J, editors. New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining: PAKDD 2011 International Workshops, Shenzhen, China, May 24-27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 40–52. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Neurosciences.

Blog post

Fang J. Watch a Baby Gorilla Being Born! [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-baby-gorilla-being-born/

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. Highway Safety: Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Implement Changes in the Highway Safety Improvement Program Since SAFETEA-LU. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Jul. Report No.: GAO-08-1015T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bryant MG. The Development of the Massive Open Online Course Virtual Learning Environment Scale (MVLE) and Model to Measure Satisfaction of MOOC Online Learning Courses in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Ruiz RR. Sharapova Suspension Is Cut by Nine Months. New York Times. 2016 Oct 5;B8.

In-text citations

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

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 Neurosciences
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	1817-1745
ISSN (online)	1998-3948
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health General Neuroscience