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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Moore P. Antibodies where you want them. Nature 2003;426:729.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Weir JT, Schluter D. The latitudinal gradient in recent speciation and extinction rates of birds and mammals. Science 2007;315:1574–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Savaldi-Goldstein S, Peto C, Chory J. The epidermis both drives and restricts plant shoot growth. Nature 2007;446:199–202.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Huan J, Wan K, Liu Y, Dong W, Wang G. Removing PCR for the elimination of undesired DNA fragments cycle by cycle. Sci Rep 2013;3:2303.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lipiansky E. Electrical, Electronics, and Digital Hardware Essentials for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Lee S, Cho H, Yoon K-J, Lee J, editors. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12: Volume 2 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference IAS-12, held June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea. vol. 194. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bakry SH, Al-Ghamdi A. A Framework for the Knowledge Society Ecosystem: A Tool for Development. In: Lytras MD, Carroll JM, Damiani E, Tennyson RD, Avison D, Vossen G, et al., editors. The Open Knowlege Society. A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto: First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2008. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 32–44.

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.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. UFOs, Climate Change And Missing Airliners: How To Separate Fact From Fiction. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ufos-climate-change-and-missing-airliners-how-to-seperate-fact-from-fiction/ (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. Aviation Safety Hazards. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Creason PJ. The assessment of student learning outcomes at a California community college: Insight from faculty in a single department. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

Kishkovsky CJCS, Andrew Kramer contributed reporting from Moscow for this article. AT LEAST 85 SLAIN AS REBELS ATTACK IN SOUTH RUSSIA. New York Times 2005:A1.

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
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0022-3468
Scope	General Medicine Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Surgery