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

Gill P: Atomic clocks. Raising the standards. Science 2001 Nov 23;294:1666–1668.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galloway LF, Etterson JR: Transgenerational plasticity is adaptive in the wild. Science 2007 Nov 16;318:1134–1136.

A journal article with 3 authors

Geisler JH, Colbert MW, Carew JL: A new fossil species supports an early origin for toothed whale echolocation. Nature 2014 Apr 17;508:383–386.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kaur C, Vishnoi A, Ariyadasa TU, Bhattacharya A, Singla-Pareek SL, Sopory SK: Episodes of horizontal gene-transfer and gene-fusion led to co-existence of different metal-ion specific glyoxalase I. Sci Rep 2013 Nov 13;3:3076.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman RL: Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.

An edited book

Deising HB, editor: Plant Relationships. 2nd Edition Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Webster RG, Webby RJ, Perdue M: The Origin and Evolution of H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Viruses; in Rappuoli R, Del Giudice G (eds): Influenza Vaccines for the Future. Basel, Springer, 2011, pp 77–93.

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: Watch Live As Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy Makes Its Closest Approach With Sun [Internet]. IFLScience 2015 Jan 28 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/live-webcast-comet-c2014-q2-lovejoy-makes-its-closest-approach-sun/

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: Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Management. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Graham SM: Conditions that Prompt the Migrant Worker Population to Access Pre-Hospital Emergency Care in Place of Health Centers in Qatar 2017;

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

Pilon M: Judges of a Graceful Sport, Caught in a Clumsy Cheating Scandal. New York Times 2013 Jul 17;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 [3,5,6,8].

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