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]

Service RF. American Chemical Society meeting. Snapshots from the meeting. Science 2006;314:47.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Karakas E, Furukawa H. Crystal structure of a heterotetrameric NMDA receptor ion channel. Science 2014;344:992–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sokolov S, Scheuer T, Catterall WA. Gating pore current in an inherited ion channelopathy. Nature 2007;446:76–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bearhop S, Fiedler W, Furness RW, Votier SC, Waldron S, Newton J, et al. Assortative mating as a mechanism for rapid evolution of a migratory divide. Science 2005;310:502–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Abu-Jamous B, Fa R, Nandi AK. Integrative Cluster Analysis in Bioinformatics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Kaiser M, Kurath M, Maasen S, Rehmann-Sutter C, editors. Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime. vol. 27. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Martellini M, Meulenbelt S, Paturej K. Cyber Security for Chemical Plants. In: Martellini M, editor. Cyber Security: Deterrence and IT Protection for Critical Infrastructures, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013, p. 37–51.

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]

Carpineti A. Antibiotic-Antibody Cocktail Kills MRSA Superbug In Mice. IFLScience 2015.

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. Information Superhighway: Issues Affecting Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Winter JM. Investigating the biosynthesis of halogenated meroterpenoid natural products from marine actinomycetes. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2010.

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]

Poniewozik J. Long After the Departure, One More Cosmic Joke to Tell. New York Times 2017:C14.

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