How to format your references using the Journal of Perinatal Medicine citation style

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

Goldston D: Mean what you say. Nature 2009 Apr 2;458:563.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanrieder J, Ewing AG: Spatial elucidation of spinal cord lipid- and metabolite- regulations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Sci Rep 2014 Jun 12;4:5266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loudet JC, Hanusse P, Poulin P: Stokes drag on a sphere in a nematic liquid crystal. Science 2004 Nov 26;306:1525.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Choi JH, Banks AS, Kamenecka TM, Busby SA, Chalmers MJ, Kumar N, et al.: Antidiabetic actions of a non-agonist PPARγ ligand blocking Cdk5-mediated phosphorylation. Nature 2011 Sep 4;477:477–481.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardi F, Benoist T, Darlay J, Estellon B, Megel R: Mathematical Programming Solver Based on Local Search. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

Vidergor HE, Harris CR, editors: Applied Practice for Educators of Gifted and Able Learners. Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Barenboim L, Elkin M: Combinatorial Algorithms for Distributed Graph Coloring; in Peleg D (ed): Distributed Computing: 25th International Symposium, DISC 2011, Rome, Italy, September 20-22, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2011, pp 66–81.

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 Perinatal Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E: How Poo-Sniffing Detective Dogs Can Save Elusive, Rare Gorillas [Internet]. IFLScience 2015 Feb 25 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-poo-sniffing-detective-dogs-can-save-elusive-rare-gorillas/

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: Taxpayer Information: Data Sharing and Analysis May Enhance Tax Compliance and Improve Immigration Eligibility Decisions. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez J: Viviendo en las sombras: Examining the educational experiences of undocumented immigrant Latino students in a public secondary school setting 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

Burghardt LF: The Legacies They Left. New York Times 2006 Jan 1;14LI6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [3,5,7,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Perinatal Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Perinat. Med.
ISSN (print)	0300-5577
ISSN (online)	1619-3997
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health