How to format your references using the Pediatric Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pediatric Drugs. 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. Pither J. Comment on “Dispersal limitations matter for microbial morphospecies.” Science. 2007;316:1124; author reply 1124.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kioussis D, Georgopoulos K. Epigenetic flexibility underlying lineage choices in the adaptive immune system. Science. 2007;317:620–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Takahashi Y, Sipp D, Enomoto H. Tissue interactions in neural crest cell development and disease. Science. 2013;341:860–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang JT, Shi XL, Liu WW, Zhong XH, Wang JN, Pyrah L, et al. Influence of preferred orientation on the electrical conductivity of fluorine-doped tin oxide films. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3679.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bhaduri S, Mukesh D. Homogeneous Catalysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. Amerio L, editor. Equazioni differenziali astratte. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Satsu H, Shimizu M. Food factors that regulate intestinal inflammation: evaluation of the factors by using a coculture system. In: Iijima S, Nishijima K-I, editors. Animal Cell Technology: Basic & Applied Aspects. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 29–37.

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 Drugs.

Blog post

1. Bedell-Pearce H. Meet The Newborn Sengis Who Are More Like Elephants Than Shrews [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-the-newborn-sengis-who-are-more-like-elephants-than-shrews/

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. Space Acquisitions: Development and Oversight Challenges in Delivering Improved Space Situational Awareness Capabilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 May. Report No.: GAO-11-545.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zometa E. Imaging Service Consultations: Imaging Express [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Rothenberg B. Murray, on a High, Raises His Sights. New York Times. 2016 Sep 1;B13.

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 Drugs
Abbreviation	Paediatr. Drugs
ISSN (print)	1174-5878
ISSN (online)	1179-2019
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Pharmacology (medical)