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. Lorenz RD. Planetary science. Winds of change on Titan. Science. 2010;329:519–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Norenzayan A, Shariff AF. The origin and evolution of religious prosociality. Science. 2008;322:58–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Danchin E, Wajnberg E, Wagner RH. Avoiding pitfalls in estimating heritability with the common options approach. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3974.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lerosey G, de Rosny J, Tourin A, Fink M. Focusing beyond the diffraction limit with far-field time reversal. Science. 2007;315:1120–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Miller JM. Chromatography. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Chen H. Nonlinear Estimation and Control of Automotive Drivetrains. Gao B, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Devine SM, Hoffman R. Non-Human Primate Models of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Transplantation. In: Nolta JA, editor. Genetic Engineering of Mesenchymal Stem Cells. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 93–110.

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. Hale T. Stick Man Drawing Moves Around When Splashed With Water. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. WMATA’s Administrative Costs and Largo Extension. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 May. Report No.: RCED-96-132R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Arendse EM. A textual Caribbean: Voices of the multitude in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Feeney K. A Certifiably Green Cafe. New York Times. 2011 May 22;NJ9.

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
Scope