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

Catania K. The shocking predatory strike of the electric eel. Science. 2014 Dec;346(6214):1231–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fraser P, Bickmore W. Nuclear organization of the genome and the potential for gene regulation. Nature. 2007 May;447(7143):413–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schuch R, Nelson D, Fischetti VA. A bacteriolytic agent that detects and kills Bacillus anthracis. Nature. 2002 Aug;418(6900):884–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Garcés-Chávez V, McGloin D, Melville H, Sibbett W, Dholakia K. Simultaneous micromanipulation in multiple planes using a self-reconstructing light beam. Nature. 2002 Sep;419(6903):145–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama M, Batatia H, Messai A. Transitions from Digital Communications to Quantum Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Giacobini M, editor. Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2007: EvoCoMnet, EvoFIN, EvoIASP,EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC and EvoTransLog. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

McComas WF. Advance Organizers. In: McComas WF, editor. The Language of Science Education: An Expanded Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts in Science Teaching and Learning. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014; pp 4–4.

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 E. Dead Zebra Bursts a Fountain of Blood over a Hungry Leopard [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-moment-dead-zebra-bursts-fountain-blood-over-hungry-leopard/

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. The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tercero N. Characterization and application of morpholino monolayers in nucleic acid diagnostics. 2010

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

Romero S. Let the Games . . . End. Please. New York Times. 2016 Aug;D8.

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