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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Owens B (2015) Drug development: The treasure chest. Nature 525:S6-8
A journal article with 2 authors
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Batistatou A, Charalabopoulos K (2008) The picture of Oscar X. Nature 455:834
A journal article with 3 authors
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Zylka MJ, Philpot BD, King IF (2014) Zylka et al. reply. Nature 512:E2
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Baerlocher C, Gramm F, Massüger L, et al (2007) Structure of the polycrystalline zeolite catalyst IM-5 solved by enhanced charge flipping. Science 315:1113–1116

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Minoli D (2005) Nanotechnology Applications to Telecommunications and Networking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
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Choi S-K (2007) Reliability-based Structural Design. Springer, London
A chapter in an edited book
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Liu R, Zhang H, Yang Z (2013) How Does a Researcher Become an Entrepreneur in the High-Tech Industrial Cluster? A Case Study. In: Ferreira JJM, Raposo M, Rutten R, Varga A (eds) Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer: Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–80

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
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Davis J (2016) Letter Penned By Charles Darwin Returned To The Smithsonian, 30 Years After It Was Stolen. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/letter-penned-by-charles-darwin-returned-to-the-smithsonian-thirty-years-after-it-was-stolen/. 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
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Government Accountability Office (1987) The Need for Strong Central Oversight of the Federal Government’s War on Drugs. 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
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Ott WH (2017) An Analysis of the Coordinated Implementation of Digitally-Aided Close Air Support: An Integrated Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation Approach. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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
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Hill J, Kramer AE (2017) No Love for Valentine’s: In Russia, Florists Bank on a Day for Women. New York Times B7

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 titlePediatric Cardiology
AbbreviationPediatr. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)0172-0643
ISSN (online)1432-1971
ScopeCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health

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