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. Barnes PJ. Medicine. Neutrophils find smoke attractive. Science. 2010;330:40–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gneiting T, Raftery AE. Atmospheric science. Weather forecasting with ensemble methods. Science. 2005;310:248–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schaller MF, Wright JD, Kent DV. Atmospheric PCO₂ perturbations associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science. 2011;331:1404–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cheng D, Chen L, Yi C, Liang G, Xu Y. Association between changes in reproductive activity and D-glucose metabolism in the tephritid fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel). Sci Rep. 2014;4:7489.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Fredriksson H, Åkerlind U. Solidification and Crystallization Processing in Metals and Alloys. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Camps J, editor. Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Non-communicable Diseases - Molecular Mechanisms and Perspectives in Therapeutics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Geier T. Noncommittal Commitment: Alien Spaces of Ecocosmopolitics in Recent World Literature. In: Tally RT, Battista CM, editors. Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 55–73.

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. New Display Technology Could Do Away With Reading Glasses [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-display-technology-could-do-away-reading-glasses/

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. Highway Safety: Factors Contributing to Traffic Crashes and NHTSA’s Efforts to Address Them. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 May. Report No.: GAO-03-730T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Faughn CE. Social and Physical Cognition in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes ): Preliminary Investigation of Domain-General versus Domain-Specific Intelligence [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Qiu L. One Distorted View Of the Health Bill. New York Times. 2017 Jun 21;A14.

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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