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]

Muindi F. Tell the negative committee to shut up. Science 2014;345:350.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nishiizumi K, Caffee MW. Beryllium-10 from the Sun. Science 2001;294:352–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

van Den Brink GR, de Santa Barbara P, Roberts DJ. Development. Epithelial cell differentiation--a Mather of choice. Science 2001;294:2115–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hu C, Zhai X, Liu L, Zhao Y, Jiang L, Qu L. Spontaneous reduction and assembly of graphene oxide into three-dimensional graphene network on arbitrary conductive substrates. Sci Rep 2013;3:2065.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

bauforumstahl e.V. Beispiele zur Bemessung von Stahltragwerken nach DIN EN 1993 Eurocode 3. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Ramawat KG, editor. Herbal Drugs: Ethnomedicine to Modern Medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Danciu D, Răsvan V. Gradient Like Behavior and High Gain Design of KWTA Neural Networks. In: Cabestany J, Sandoval F, Prieto A, Corchado JM, editors. Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence: 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 24–32.

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]

Andrew E. Five Things Discworld Will Teach You About Science. IFLScience 2015.

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. Medicaid: Questionable Practices Boost Federal Payments for School-Based Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Maafi N. Assessment of Volatile Metabolites for In Situ Detection of Fungal Decay of Wood. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State 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]

Sisario B. Spotify Is Growing. So Are Its Losses. New York Times 2017:B5.

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