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

Raymond JC. Astronomy. Imaging the Sun’s eruptions in three dimensions. Science. 2004;305(5680):49-50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fry CJ, Peterson CL. Transcription. Unlocking the gates to gene expression. Science. 2002;295(5561):1847-1848.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hellberg ME, Balch DP, Roy K. Climate-driven range expansion and morphological evolution in a marine gastropod. Science. 2001;292(5522):1707-1710.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Realini N, Solorzano C, Pagliuca C, et al. Discovery of highly potent acid ceramidase inhibitors with in vitro tumor chemosensitizing activity. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1035.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pozzilli P, Lenzi A, Clarke BL, Young WF Jr. Imaging in Endocrinology. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Balcázar JL, Long PM, Stephan F, eds. Algorithmic Learning Theory: 17th International Conference, ALT 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006. Proceedings. Vol 4264. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Suraj Z, Grochowalski P. Patterns of Collaborations in Rough Set Research. In: Bello R, Falcón R, Pedrycz W, Kacprzyk J, eds. Granular Computing: At the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer; 2008:79-92.

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 D. Expiration Dates Are Bogus — Here’s The Best Way To Tell If A Food’s Gone Bad. IFLScience.

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. Whistleblower Protection Program: Opportunities Exist for OSHA and DOT to Strengthen Collaborative Mechanisms. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCallister K. I Didn’t Mean to Show the Dirt. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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

Hubbard B. Another Casualty of the Syrian War: Drinking Water in Damascus. New York Times. January 4, 2017:A8.

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

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