How to format your references using the Pediatria Polska citation style

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

[1]

Whitmire KH. Chemistry. Molecular donuts and donut holes. Science 2010;327:38–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kourra CMBK, Cramer N. Catalysis: Gold unleashes the power of three. Nature 2015;517:440–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Totan Y, Güler E, Dervişoğulları MS. Brilliant Blue G assisted epiretinal membrane surgery. Sci Rep 2014;4:3956.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang Y, Schnepp Z, Cao J, Ouyang S, Li Y, Ye J, et al. Biopolymer-activated graphitic carbon nitride towards a sustainable photocathode material. Sci Rep 2013;3:2163.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Carrasco RA, Johnston M. Non-Binary Error Control Coding for Wireless Communication and Data Storage. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Venugopal KR. Soft Computing for Data Mining Applications. vol. 190. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Das A. Differentiable Manifolds with Connections. In: Das A, editor. Tensors: The Mathematics of Relativity Theory and Continuum Mechanics, New York, NY: Springer; 2007, p. 92–120.

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 Pediatria Polska.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. A New Type Of Phantom Memory Has Been Found In The Human Brain. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-type-phantom-memory-found-human-brain/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Opportunities and Constraints for Expanding Use of Research Facilities at the National Bureau of Standards. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nadeau EM. Baby Boomer Generation’s Knowledge of Alzheimer’s Disease. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

[1]

Vecsey G. Togetherness Helps Set Winner Apart. New York Times 2011:F9.

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	Pediatria Polska
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0031-3939
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health