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

Mestel L. Obituary: Hermann Bondi (1919-2005). Nature. 2005;437(7060):828.

A journal article with 2 authors

McConkey EH, Varki A. Genomics. Thoughts on the future of great ape research. Science. 2005;309(5740):1499-1501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller PM, Gavrilets S, Rice WR. Sexual conflict via maternal-effect genes in ZW species. Science. 2006;312(5770):73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fernandez CA, Martin PC, Schaef T, et al. An electrically switchable metal-organic framework. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6114.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Choi NE, Han JH. How Flavor Works. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Moreno-Arribas MV, Polo MC, eds. Wine Chemistry and Biochemistry. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Romanko O, Ghaffari-Hadigheh A, Terlaky T. Multiobjective Optimization via Parametric Optimization: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. In: Terlaky T, Curtis FE, eds. Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications: Selected Contributions from the MOPTA 2010 Conference. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer; 2012:77-119.

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

Andrew E. Our Brain Sees Known Words As Pictures. IFLScience. March 26, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/our-brain-sees-known-words-pictures/

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. GAO’s Views on SDIO’s Phase I Cost Estimate. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Navolio LM. The Process of Individuation as Embodied in Symbols, Images, and Alchemical Motifs: A Psychological Study Based on Twelve Paintings by Remedios Varo. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2004.

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

Fox M. Boris Pokrovsky, 97, Bolshoi Director. New York Times. June 6, 2009:A19.

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