How to format your references using the Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports citation style

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

[1]

Destexhe A. Neuroscience. Dendrites do it in sequences. Science 2010;329:1611–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zwierlein MW, Ketterle W. Comment on “Pairing and phase separation in a polarized Fermi gas.” Science 2006;314:54; author reply 54.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Watson EB, Thomas JB, Cherniak DJ. 40Ar retention in the terrestrial planets. Nature 2007;449:299–304.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Montoya D, Zavala MA, Rodríguez MA, Purves DW. Animal versus wind dispersal and the robustness of tree species to deforestation. Science 2008;320:1502–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Drago C. Implant Restorations. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Botti V. ANEMONA: A Mulit-agent Methodology for Holonic Manufacturing Systems. London: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Luu GT, Duy TT. Comparison Between Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches for Time-Varying Delay Estimation with Application to Electromyography Signals. In: Vinh PC, Barolli L, editors. Nature of Computation and Communication: Second International Conference, ICTCC 2016, Rach Gia, Vietnam, March 17-18, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 43–51.

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 Surgery Case Reports.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Climate Change And Hurricane Katrina: What Have We Learned? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-change-and-hurricane-katrina-what-have-we-learned/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Risk Management: Further Refinements Needed to Assess Risks and Prioritize Protective Measures at Ports and Other Critical Infrastructure. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Johnson AS. Fatigue Behavior and Microstructure of Direct Laser Deposited Inconel 718 Alloy. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 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

[1]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Orthodox Church Berates Vatican. New York Times 2002:A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Surgery Case Reports
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Surg. Case Rep.
ISSN (print)	2213-5766
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Surgery