How to format your references using the Pediatric Infectious Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pediatric Infectious Disease. 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

Mills E. Climate change. The greening of insurance. Science. 2012;338(6113):1424-1425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang L, Anderson DJ. Identification of an aggression-promoting pheromone and its receptor neurons in Drosophila. Nature. 2010;463(7278):227-231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloom DE, Canning D, Fink G. Urbanization and the wealth of nations. Science. 2008;319(5864):772-775.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Covert MW, Knight EM, Reed JL, Herrgard MJ, Palsson BO. Integrating high-throughput and computational data elucidates bacterial networks. Nature. 2004;429(6987):92-96.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brook CGD, Dattani MT. Handbook of Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology. Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

Buyya R, Pathan M, Vakali A, eds. Content Delivery Networks. Vol 9. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Babin A, Figotin A. The Maxwell Equations. In: Figotin A, ed. Neoclassical Theory of Electromagnetic Interactions: A Single Theory for Macroscopic and Microscopic Scales. Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Springer; 2016:89-100.

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 Infectious Disease.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Why You Should Worry About The Privatization Of Genetic Data. IFLScience. Published September 8, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-you-should-worry-about-the-privatization-of-genetic-data/

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Time Tables for Critical Planning Documents. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Graves KA. An Exploration of Organizational Commitment among Generation X Leaders. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 2012.

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

Koblin J. FX Plans a Commercial-Free Service With Comcast. New York Times. August 7, 2017:B6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Infectious Disease
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Infect. Dis.
ISSN (print)	2212-8328
Scope