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

Arendt AA (2011) Geophysics. Assessing the status of Alaska’s glaciers. Science 332:1044–1045

A journal article with 2 authors

Person AL, Raman IM (2011) Purkinje neuron synchrony elicits time-locked spiking in the cerebellar nuclei. Nature 481:502–505

A journal article with 3 authors

DeBose JL, Lema SC, Nevitt GA (2008) Dimethylsulfoniopropionate as a foraging cue for reef fishes. Science 319:1356

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dean S, Marchetti R, Kirk K, Matthews KR (2009) A surface transporter family conveys the trypanosome differentiation signal. Nature 459:213–217

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stolarski TA, Tobe S (2000) Rolling Contacts. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R, et al (2016) Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXIV: Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Heilmann C, Francis N (2007) Retrieving and Displaying Content with Rest and Ajax. In: Francis MN (ed) Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 95–121

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

Fang J (2016) Researchers Have Sequenced Giraffe and Okapi Genomes For The First Time. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-have-sequenced-giraffe-and-okapi-genomes-first-time/. 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 (1992) National Security: Perspectives on Worldwide Threats and Implications for U.S. Forces. 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

Waugh DL (2012) From forgotten to remembered: The long process of school desegregation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Prince Edward County, Virginia. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Kelly C (2000) Higher Profile for a Little-Known Foundation. New York Times 14WC8

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

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