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

Ward BB (2013) Oceans. How nitrogen is lost. Science 341:352–353

A journal article with 2 authors

Yamanaka S, Blau HM (2010) Nuclear reprogramming to a pluripotent state by three approaches. Nature 465:704–712

A journal article with 3 authors

Prospero JM, Bullard JE, Hodgkins R (2012) High-latitude dust over the North Atlantic: inputs from Icelandic proglacial dust storms. Science 335:1078–1082

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nolen BJ, Tomasevic N, Russell A, et al (2009) Characterization of two classes of small molecule inhibitors of Arp2/3 complex. Nature 460:1031–1034

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM (2010) The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hatamura Y (2006) Decision-Making in Engineering Design: Theory and Practice. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Benferhat S, Dubois D, Prade H (2009) Interventions in Possibilistic Logic. In: Godo L, Pugliese A (eds) Scalable Uncertainty Management: Third International Conference, SUM 2009, Washington, DC, USA, September 28-30, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 40–54

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 (2014) 3D Printed Airway Saves Toddler’s Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/3d-printed-airway-saves-toddler’s-life/. 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 (2008) Telecommunications: Agencies Are Generally Following Sound Transition Planning Practices, and GSA Is Taking Action to Resolve Challenges. 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

Regmi K (2015) Computer Vision and Image Processing Toolbox for MATLAB. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Prochnik G (2015) Days of Observance. New York Times BR16

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