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

Rusbridger A. Scientists must speak up on fossil-fuel divestment. Nature. 2015 Apr;520(7547):265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rioux JD, Abbas AK. Paths to understanding the genetic basis of autoimmune disease. Nature. 2005 Jun;435(7042):584–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khush RS, Leulier F, Lemaitre B. Immunology. Pathogen surveillance--the flies have it. Science. 2002 Apr;296(5566):273–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rueness EK, Stenseth NC, O’Donoghue M, Boutin S, Ellegren H, Jakobsen KS. Ecological and genetic spatial structuring in the Canadian lynx. Nature. 2003 Sep;425(6953):69–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’homme R. Flows and Chemical Reactions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Artho C, Ölveczky PC, editors. Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems: 4th International Workshop, FTSCS 2015, Paris, France, November 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Gim S, Meo I, Park Y, Lee S. Drivable Road Recognition by Multilayered LiDAR and Vision. In: Lee S, Cho H, Yoon K-J, Lee J, editors. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12: Volume 1 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference IAS-12, held June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 43–56.

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. When Parallel Worlds Collide . . . Quantum Mechanics Is Born [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/when-parallel-worlds-collide-quantum-mechanics-born/

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. Department of Labor’s Past and Future Role in Offender Rehabilitation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Galyer DL. The Influence of Reference Objects on Vector-Based Memory Representations. 2019

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

Cardwell D, Schwartz J. Exxon’s Accounting of Its Emissions Costs ‘May Be a Sham,’ New York State Says. New York Times. 2017 Jun;B6.

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

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