How to format your references using the Pediatric Neurology citation style

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

Lake JA. Evidence for an early prokaryotic endosymbiosis. Nature 2009;460:967–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Thompson PM, Ollason JC. Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics. Nature 2001;413:417–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Boudvillain M, de Lencastre A, Pyle AM. A tertiary interaction that links active-site domains to the 5’ splice site of a group II intron. Nature 2000;406:315–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mayer L, Kazantzidis S, Mastropietro C, Wadsley J. Early gas stripping as the origin of the darkest galaxies in the Universe. Nature 2007;445:738–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yin G. Clinical Trial Design: Bayesian and Frequentist Adaptive Methods. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Finkel D, Reynolds CA, editors. Behavior Genetics of Cognition Across the Lifespan. vol. 1. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Marasinghe MG, Kennedy WJ. Analysis of Variance Models. In: Kennedy WJ, editor. SAS for Data Analysis: Intermediate Statistical Methods, New York, NY: Springer; 2008, p. 1–113.

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 Neurology.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Mystery Of London’s 1952 Killer Fog Is Solved. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mystery-of-londons-1952-killer-fog-is-solved/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Federal Agencies Administering Programs Related to Marine Science Activities and Oceanic Affairs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jin R. Graph-Based Rhythm Interpretation in Optical Music Recognition. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2017.

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]

Phillips-Sandy M. Autocorrect and the Tao of Texting. New York Times 2016:A23.

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 Neurology
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	0887-8994
Scope	Clinical Neurology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Developmental Neuroscience Neurology