How to format your references using the Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Maternal Health, Neonatology and 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	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

1. Holmes N. Immunology. A splicing switch for T cells. Science. 2008;321:646–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tregenza T, Wedell N. Polyandrous females avoid costs of inbreeding. Nature. 2002;415:71–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McSween HY Jr, Taylor GJ, Wyatt MB. Elemental composition of the Martian crust. Science. 2009;324:736–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yoshida K, Toyoura K, Matsunaga K, Nakahira A, Kurata H, Ikuhara YH, et al. Atomic sites and stability of Cs+ captured within zeolitic nanocavities. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Gerardi MH. Troubleshooting the Sequencing Batch Reactor. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Shamir A, Korat O, editors. Technology as a Support for Literacy Achievements for Children at Risk. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Uzun E, Lorenzi D, Atluri V, Vaidya J, Sural S. Migrating from DAC to RBAC. In: Samarati P, editor. Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXIX: 29th Annual IFIP WG 113 Working Conference, DBSec 2015, Fairfax, VA, USA, July 13-15, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 69–84.

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 Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. How Poo-Sniffing Detective Dogs Can Save Elusive, Rare Gorillas [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [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

1. Government Accountability Office. The Impact Aid Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Jun. Report No.: 102448.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fisher JD. A profile of the chief student affairs officers of the California State University system [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2015.

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

1. Crow K. Two Precincts, Two Worlds; East Flatbush: Stolen Cars, Murder in a Maroon Jeep. New York Times. 2003 Feb 9;141.

In-text citations

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

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	Maternal Health, Neonatology and Perinatology
Abbreviation	Matern. Health Neonatol. Perinatol.
ISSN (online)	2054-958X
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