How to format your references using the Pediatric Cardiology citation style

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

Aebischer P (2012) Philanthropy: The price of charity. Nature 481:260

A journal article with 2 authors

Erdélyi R, Fedun V (2007) Are there Alfvén waves in the solar atmosphere? Science 318:1572–1574

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang QD, Gotthelf EV, Lang CC (2002) A faint discrete source origin for the highly ionized iron emission from the Galactic Centre region. Nature 415:148–150

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yu B, Zhang H, Xu W, et al (2014) Remediation of chromium-slag leakage with electricity cogeneration via a urea-Cr(VI) cell. Sci Rep 4:5860

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee YS (2011) Self-Assembly and Nanotechnology Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Barbancho AM (2013) Database of Piano Chords: An Engineering View of Harmony. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Billington D (2008) Propositional Clausal Defeasible Logic. In: Hölldobler S, Lutz C, Wansing H (eds) Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 11th European Conference, JELIA 2008, Dresden, Germany, September 28-October 1, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 34–47

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 Pediatric Cardiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Environmentally Friendly Silver Nanoparticles Could Fight Microbes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/environmentally-friendly-silver-nanoparticles-could-fight-microbes/. 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 (1990) International Aviation: Implications of Ratifying the Montreal Aviation Protocols. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harris AN (2017) Deadly force: Perceptions of police and exploration of strategies used by African American mothers to protect their sons. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Rosenberg E (2016) Misconduct Complaint Against Christie Has Merit, Judge Says. New York Times A20

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	Pediatric Cardiology
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0172-0643
ISSN (online)	1432-1971
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health