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

Suderow HJ: PHYSICS. Opening the gate on superconductivity. Science 2015 Dec 11;350:1316–1317.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mukhopadhyay S, Linstedt AD: Manganese blocks intracellular trafficking of Shiga toxin and protects against Shiga toxicosis. Science 2012 Jan 20;335:332–335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Powell A, Shennan S, Thomas MG: Late Pleistocene demography and the appearance of modern human behavior. Science 2009 Jun 5;324:1298–1301.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bellafiore S, Barneche F, Peltier G, Rochaix J-D: State transitions and light adaptation require chloroplast thylakoid protein kinase STN7. Nature 2005 Feb 24;433:892–895.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Gorman TW: Adaptive Tests of Significance Using Permutations of Residuals with R and SAS®. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

Wiggan G, editor: Dreaming of a Place Called Home: Local and International Perspectives on Teacher Education and School Diversity. Rotterdam, SensePublishers, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Flannery JA, Smith KM: Green Dot E. 27th Street Charter High Schools; in Smith KM (ed): Eco-Urban Design. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2011, pp 42–49.

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

Hale T: Archaeologists Find 2,000-Year-Old Roman Tile Imprinted With A Perfect Cat Paw. IFLScience 2017 Jun 8;

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: Repayment of Overpaid Cash-in-Lieu-of-Commodities Funds to Louisiana Youth Talent Promotion, Inc. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wizda LL: A case study of online peer coaching of consultant communication skill development 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

Eligon J, Alcindor Y, Armendariz A: Tax Credits to House Poor Reinforce Racial Divisions. New York Times 2017 Jul 2;A1.

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 [3,4].
This sentence cites four references [4,6–8].

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