How to format your references using the Journal of Perinatology citation style

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

Nosengo N. Pollution fears put work at neutrino laboratory on hold. Nature 2003; 423: 675.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bland PA, Artemieva NA. Efficient disruption of small asteroids by Earth’s atmosphere. Nature 2003; 424: 288–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Montaño SP, Pigli YZ, Rice PA. The μ transpososome structure sheds light on DDE recombinase evolution. Nature 2012; 491: 413–417.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shin S, El-Diwany R, Schaffert S, Adams EJ, Garcia KC, Pereira P et al. Antigen recognition determinants of gammadelta T cell receptors. Science 2005; 308: 252–255.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson M. Everyday Moral Economies. John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

Buttà P. Mathematical Models of Viscous Friction. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Sobhani-Tehrani E, Khorasani K. Application to a Satellite’s Attitude Control Subsystem. In: Khorasani K (ed). Fault Diagnosis of Nonlinear Systems Using a Hybrid Approach. Springer US: Boston, MA, 2009, pp 99–217.

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 Perinatology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Spanish Boy Dies Of Diphtheria Thanks To Anti-Vaxxers. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spanish-boy-diphtheria-dies/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Federal Communications Commission: Competitive Bidding Procedures. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cannon MP. Cenozoic kinematics of the Little Pine fault, Santa Maria Basin, California. 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

Ruiz RR. Sharapova Suspension Is Cut by Nine Months. New York Times. 2016; : B8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Perinatology
Abbreviation	J. Perinatol.
ISSN (print)	0743-8346
ISSN (online)	1476-5543
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health