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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Rust J. Fossil record of mass moth migration. Nature 2000;405:530–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chandler JA, Turelli M. Comment on “The hologenomic basis of speciation: gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia.” Science 2014;345:1011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Altizer S, Bartel R, Han BA. Animal migration and infectious disease risk. Science 2011;331:296–302.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Humeau Y, Shaban H, Bissière S, Lüthi A. Presynaptic induction of heterosynaptic associative plasticity in the mammalian brain. Nature 2003;426:841–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chaudhry A, Coetsee D, Bakker E, Varughese S, McIlwaine S, Fuller C, et al. 2015 Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Prékopa A, Molnár E, editors. Non-Euclidean Geometries: János Bolyai Memorial Volume. vol. 581. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Reinaldo F, Camacho R, Reis LP, Magalhães DR. Fine-Tune Artificial Neural Networks Automatically. In: Mastorakis N, Mladenov V, Kontargyri VT, editors. Proceedings of the European Computing Conference: Volume 1, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009, p. 39–43.

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]

Carpineti A. Astronomers Just Discovered Something Orbiting Our Galaxy. IFLScience 2016.

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. New or Renovated Warehouse Space Provided Under Extended Storage Agreements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Trahan MW. Large-scale 20th Century Warming Identified in the East Siberian Arctic Using Tree-ring Carbon Isotope Records. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 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

[1]

Billard M. Leaving the High Life. New York Times 2013:E1.

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