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

Riordan M. The suspense of strangeness. Nature 2001; 409: 457.

A journal article with 2 authors

McNeill JR, Winiwarter V. Breaking the sod: humankind, history, and soil. Science 2004; 304: 1627–1629.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalka MB, Smith AR, Kalko EKV. Bats limit arthropods and herbivory in a tropical forest. Science 2008; 320: 71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Santander-Syro AF, Copie O, Kondo T, Fortuna F, Pailhès S, Weht R et al. Two-dimensional electron gas with universal subbands at the surface of SrTiO(3). Nature 2011; 469: 189–193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Negre E. Information and Recommender Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

Banerjee S, Erçetin ŞŞ (eds.). Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Li S, Mao J, Wang S. Cylinder Head Fem Analysis and its Improvement. In: Li D (ed). Computer And Computing Technologies In Agriculture, Volume II: First IFIP TC 12 International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA 2007), Wuyishan, China, August 18-20, 2007. Springer US: Boston, MA, 2008, pp 761–768.

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

Fang J. Small Dog-Sized Dinosaur Discovered in Venezuela. IFLScience. 2014.

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. Secure Flight: TSA Could Take Additional Steps to Strengthen Privacy Oversight Mechanisms. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Song H-J. Strategic Constraints of Economic Interdependence: South Korea’s Changing Strategy in the Face of a Rising China. 2014.

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

Hubbard B, Schmitt E, Gordon MR. Cease-Fire in Syria Holds, Giving Hope to Peace Talks. New York Times. 2016; : A11.

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