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]

Bergman L. Damned if you don’t. Nature 2005;435:1002.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Promislow DEL, Kaeberlein M. Development. Chemical warfare in the battle of the sexes. Science 2014;343:491–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Phillips BL, Casey WH, Karlsson M. Bonding and reactivity at oxide mineral surfaces from model aqueous complexes. Nature 2000;404:379–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pasquarello A, Petri I, Salmon PS, Parisel O, Car R, Toth E, et al. First solvation shell of the Cu(II) aqua ion: evidence for fivefold coordination. Science 2001;291:856–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ni Z, Pacoret C, Benosman R, Régnier S. Haptic Feedback Teleoperation of Optical Tweezers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Zeng Z, Li Y, King I, editors. Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2014: 11th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2014, Hong Kong and Macao, China, November 28- December 1, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 8866. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yamakawa H, Yoshizaki T. Equilibrium Properties. In: Yoshizaki T, editor. Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016, p. 129–91.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Why Was A Leap Second Added To 2016? IFLScience 2017.

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. Federal Student Loans: Impact of Loan Limit Increases on College Prices Is Difficult to Discern. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Evans B. An integrated program for homeless adults with co-occurring mental and subtance use disorders: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Baum S, Conklin K, Johnson N. Stop Penalizing Poor College Students. New York Times 2013:A31.

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