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. Spurgeon D. Immigrants help offset Canada’s brain-drain crisis. Nature. 2000;405:604.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Campbell E, Salathé M. Complex social contagion makes networks more vulnerable to disease outbreaks. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1905.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pelupessy P, Rennella E, Bodenhausen G. High-resolution NMR in magnetic fields with unknown spatiotemporal variations. Science. 2009;324:1693–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Meier F, Zhou L, Wiebe J, Wiesendanger R. Revealing magnetic interactions from single-atom magnetization curves. Science. 2008;320:82–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mazer A. Shifting the Earth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Ostafin BD, Robinson MD, Meier BP, editors. Handbook of Mindfulness and Self-Regulation. 1st ed. 2015. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nedoma J, Ramík J. Linear programming with set coefficients. In: Nedoma J, Ramík J, Rohn J, Zimmermann K, editors. Linear Optimization Problems with Inexact Data. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006. p. 101–16.

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. Carpineti A. Huge Galaxy Cluster Discovered By Citizen Scientists [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/huge-galaxy-cluster-discovered-by-citizen-scientists/

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. Environmental Satellites: Focused Attention Needed to Mitigate Program Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Jun. Report No.: GAO-12-841T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Oppenheimer C. Use of bibliotherapy as an adjunctive therapy with bereaved children: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. Arts, Briefly; Chekhov in Bloom. New York Times. 2005 Jun 6;E2.

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)