How to format your references using the Paediatrics and Child Health citation style

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

Steneck RS. Ecology. Staying connected in a turbulent world. Science 2006; 311: 480–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Topisirovic I, Sonenberg N. Cell biology. Burn out or fade away? Science 2010; 327: 1210–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Passier R, van Laake LW, Mummery CL. Stem-cell-based therapy and lessons from the heart. Nature 2008; 453: 322–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

D’Ostilio K, Cremers J, Delvaux V, Sadzot B, Garraux G. Impaired automatic and unconscious motor processes in Parkinson’s disease. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 2095.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davino C, Furno M, Vistocco D. Quantile Regression: Theory and Applications. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014.

An edited book

Fang AC. Text Genres and Registers: The Computation of Linguistic Features. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Finn A, Scheding S. Force-Integration of UVS. In: Scheding S, ed. Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles: A Compendium. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

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 Paediatrics and Child Health.

Blog post

Luntz S. Bacteria Unite To Save Your Guts. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bacteria-unite-save-your-guts/ (accessed 30 Oct 2018).

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. Programming Guide to Version 6.0 of Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stockman SB. Daughters of Yahweh: Recovering the deep feminine from the Yahweh complex. 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

Marx L. A Romance With Birthdays as Bookends. New York Times 29 May 2016; ST13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Paediatrics and Child Health
ISSN (print)	1751-7222
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