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]

de Waal FBM. Darwin’s last laugh. Nature 2009;460:175.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zhu Z, Hoffman JE. Condensed-matter physics: Catching relativistic electrons. Nature 2014;513:319–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thompson JK, Peterson MR, Freeman RD. Single-neuron activity and tissue oxygenation in the cerebral cortex. Science 2003;299:1070–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Radu I, Vahaplar K, Stamm C, Kachel T, Pontius N, Dürr HA, et al. Transient ferromagnetic-like state mediating ultrafast reversal of antiferromagnetically coupled spins. Nature 2011;472:205–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Grant G. Ecosystem Services Come to Town. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Arase D, editor. China’s Rise and Changing Order in East Asia. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kou G, Ergu D, Peng Y, Shi Y. IBMM for Questionnaire Design Improvement. In: Ergu D, Peng Y, Shi Y, editors. Data Processing for the AHP/ANP, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 77–91.

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 D. New Zealand’s Alpine Fault Reveals Extreme Underground Heat And Fluid Pressure. IFLScience 2017.

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. Head Start: Challenges in Monitoring Program Quality and Demonstrating Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Solari S. A unified anatomical theory and computational model of cognitive information processing in the mammalian brain and the introduction of DNA reco codes. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2009.

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]

Fiske IH. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. New York Times 1907:SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR233.

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

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