How to format your references using the Neonatology citation style

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

Smaglik P. Singapore: filling biopolis. Nature. 2003 Oct;425(6959):746–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kosten S, Lacerot G. Life in science. It takes a village. Science. 2009 Jun;324(5932):1265.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang Y, Zhang Y, Ha Y. Crystal structure of a rhomboid family intramembrane protease. Nature. 2006 Nov;444(7116):179–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Collin D, Ritort F, Jarzynski C, Smith SB, Tinoco I Jr, Bustamante C. Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies. Nature. 2005 Sep;437(7056):231–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler H. Food Industry Innovation School, The. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Schatzker J. The Rationale of Operative Fracture Care. Third Edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Müller M, Günther T, Kammer D, Wojdziak J, Lorenz S, Groh R. Smart Prototyping - Improving the Evaluation of Design Concepts Using Virtual Reality. In: Lackey S, Shumaker R, editors. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 8th International Conference, VAMR 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 47–58.

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 Neonatology.

Blog post

Andrew D. There’s No Such Thing As An Alpha Male [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Oct

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. APHIS: Solid Wood Packing Material From China. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vega Aguirre JC. Study of small business leadership as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement. 2008

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

Stewart JB. Feel Optimistic About the Booming Market? Then Read at Your Own Risk. New York Times. 2017 Jun;B1.

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	Neonatology
Abbreviation	Neonatology
ISSN (print)	1661-7800
ISSN (online)	1661-7819
Scope	Developmental Biology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health