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]

Brock JD. Chemistry. Watching atoms move. Science 2007;315:609–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ahn NG, Resing KA. Cell biology. Lessons in rational drug design for protein kinases. Science 2005;308:1266–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Halter WE, Pettke T, Heinrich CA. The origin of Cu/Au ratios in porphyry-type ore deposits. Science 2002;296:1844–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li Y-L, Luo W, Chen X-J, Zeng Z, Lin H-Q, Ahuja R. Formation of Nanofoam carbon and re-emergence of Superconductivity in compressed CaC6. Sci Rep 2013;3:3331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Raeburn D. Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Kerkhove B van, Bendegem JP van, editors. Perspectives On Mathematical Practices: Bringing Together Philosophy of Mathematics, Sociology of Mathematics, and Mathematics Education. vol. 5. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yamada S, Okumura M, Machida M. High Performance Computing for Eigenvalue Solver in Density-Matrix Renormalization Group Method: Parallelization of the Hamiltonian Matrix-Vector Multiplication. In: Palma JMLM, Amestoy PR, Daydé M, Mattoso M, Lopes JC, editors. High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2008: 8th International Conference, Toulouse, France, June 24-27, 2008. Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 39–45.

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]

Andrew E. Beyond Pluto: New Horizons’ Mission Is Not Over Yet. IFLScience 2015.

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. Curriculum Case Studies Are of Questionable Quality but Helped Precollege Curriculum Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Boucher D. An action research project: Development of a pre-licensure examination review course for Emergency Medical Technician program graduates at a rural community college. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2013.

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]

Eligon J. Sergeant Says He Faced Taunts at Work After Learning He’s Part Black. New York Times 2017:A23.

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