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

Kane TJ. Education. The long road to race-blindness. Science. 2003 Oct;302(5645):571–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Geschwind DH, Flint J. Genetics and genomics of psychiatric disease. Science. 2015 Sep;349(6255):1489–94.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghaffari HO, Nasseri MHB, Young RP. Faulting of rocks in a three-dimensional stress field by micro-anticracks. Sci Rep. 2014 May;4:5011.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Halder GJ, Kepert CJ, Moubaraki B, Murray KS, Cashion JD. Guest-dependent spin crossover in a nanoporous molecular framework material. Science. 2002 Nov;298(5599):1762–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Illian J, Penttinen A, Stoyan H, Stoyan D. Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Bebis G, Boyle R, Parvin B, Koracin D, Li B, Porikli F, et al., editors. Advances in Visual Computing: 9th International Symposium, ISVC 2013, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 29-31, 2013. Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin C-W, Cui T, Chien C-H, Tan J, Chao Y-J, Van Zee JW. Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Polymeric Materials Aged in PEM Fuel Cell Conditions. In: Proulx T, editor. Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. New York, NY: Springer; 2011; pp 31–5.

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

Fang J. To Avoid Fights, Male Elephant Seals Remember The Calls Of Their Rivals [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/avoid-fights-male-elephant-seals-remember-calls-their-rivals/

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. Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia M. A.R.T. / Atmospheric. Retail. Therapy. 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

Belcher D. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Director of the Russian Stage, Is Dead at 97. New York Times. 2014 Oct;A24.

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