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

Check E. Fresh analyses put rice genomics on the map. Nature. 2002;420(6913):259.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lavier LL, Manatschal G. A mechanism to thin the continental lithosphere at magma-poor margins. Nature. 2006;440(7082):324-328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu K, Lu L, Suresh S. Strengthening materials by engineering coherent internal boundaries at the nanoscale. Science. 2009;324(5925):349-352.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nürnberg DJ, Morton J, Santabarbara S, et al. Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f-containing photosystems. Science. 2018;360(6394):1210-1213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noyer JM. Transformation of Collective Intelligences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Chbeir R, Al Bouna B, eds. Security and Privacy Preserving in Social Networks. Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Slutkin G, Ransford C, Decker RB. Cure Violence: Treating Violence As a Contagious Disease. In: Maltz MD, Rice SK, eds. Envisioning Criminology: Researchers on Research as a Process of Discovery. Springer International Publishing; 2015:43-56.

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

Luntz S. Crop Records Reveal Madagascar And Comoros Were Settled From Southeast Asia. IFLScience. June 1, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/madagascar-and-comoros-settled-south-east-asia/

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. Electronic Government: Progress and Challenges in Implementing the Office of Personnel Management’s Initiatives. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

So RJ. Coolie Democracy: U.S.-China Political and Literary Exchange, 1925-1955. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University; 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

Feeney K. Eating at the Mega-Market. New York Times. March 1, 2009:NJ10.

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