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]

Carroll SB. Genetics and the making of Homo sapiens. Nature 2003;422:849–57.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wickner W, Schekman R. Protein translocation across biological membranes. Science 2005;310:1452–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Vielle-Calzada JP, Baskar R, Grossniklaus U. Delayed activation of the paternal genome during seed development. Nature 2000;404:91–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Song Q, Zhang N, Zhai H, Liu S, Gu Z, Wang K, et al. The combination of high Q factor and chirality in twin cavities and microcavity chain. Sci Rep 2014;4:6493.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schmidt W. Optische Spektroskopie. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2000.

An edited book

[1]

Schatan C, Rivera E, editors. Competition Policies in Emerging Economies: Lessons and Challenges from Central America and Mexico. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Koehl M, Le Moal M, Abrous DN. Stress Disorders. In: Seki T, Sawamoto K, Parent JM, Alvarez-Buylla A, editors. Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain II: Clinical Implications, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2011, p. 53–97.

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]

Luntz S. Solar Panels Could Come With Built-In Storage. 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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Status of Airports’ Efforts to Deal with Date Change Problem. 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]

Naik M. Automating the process of antibiotic susceptibility testing. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Shpigel B. In One Brief Moment, Rangers Finally Win Playoff Game at Home. New York Times 2017:B8.

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

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