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]

Cyranoski D. Curiosity makes way for capitalism. Nature 2004;429:216–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lewinsohn TM, Cagnolo L. Ecology. Keystones in a tangled bank. Science 2012;335:1449–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hillenbrand R, Taubner T, Keilmann F. Phonon-enhanced light matter interaction at the nanometre scale. Nature 2002;418:159–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wu L, Bauer CS, Zhen X-G, Xie C, Yang J. Dual regulation of voltage-gated calcium channels by PtdIns(4,5)P2. Nature 2002;419:947–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nguyen T. Investing in the High Yield Municipal Market. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Peterson MP, editor. International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dolev S, Garay J, Gilboa N, Kolesnikov V, Yuditsky Y. Towards Efficient Private Distributed Computation on Unbounded Input Streams. In: Jacobson M, Locasto M, Mohassel P, Safavi-Naini R, editors. Applied Cryptography and Network Security: 11th International Conference, ACNS 2013, Banff, AB, Canada, June 25-28, 2013. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 69–83.

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]

Andrews R. This 110-Million-Year-Old Armored Dinosaur Was Turned To Stone By A Geological Medusa. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/110millionyearold-armored-dinosaur-turned-stone-geological-medusa/ (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. National Materials Research and Development Capability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Buckingham T. Every teacher an English teacher? Literacy strategy teaching and research in the content area of science education. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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

[1]

Witz B. As Hurricane Nears Florida, Yankees’ Series With Rays Is Moved to Citi Field. New York Times 2017:D2.

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