How to format your references using the Pediatric Practice and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pediatric Practice and Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Black DE. Climate variability. The rains may be a-comin’. Science 2002;297(5581):528–529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greening BR, Fefferman NH. Evolutionary significance of the role of family units in a broader social system. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:3608.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shcherbina AY, Talley LD, Rudnick DL. Direct observations of North Pacific ventilation: brine rejection in the Okhotsk Sea. Science 2003;302(5652):1952–1955.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yeo M, Lee S-K, Lee B et al. Small CTD phosphatases function in silencing neuronal gene expression. Science 2005;307(5709):596–600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner-Martin L. A History of American Literature. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Barbu V. Convexity and Optimization in Banach Spaces. 4th ed. 2012. (Precupanu T, ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Mesiar R, Kolesárová A, Komorníková M. Aggregation Functions on [0,1]. In: Kacprzyk J, Pedrycz W, eds. Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence. Ser. Probab. Appl. Math. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015:61–74.

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 Practice and Research.

Blog post

Hamilton K. T. Rex Ants Seen Alive For First Time. IFLScience 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/t-rex-ants-seen-alive-for-first-time/. 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

Government Accountability Office. Secret Service Has More Computer Capacity Than It Needs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clater MJ. Interposed between God and man: Agency in the Requiems of Berlioz and Fauré. 2009.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Referendum In Chechnya. New York Times. October 2, 2002:A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Practice and Research
ISSN (print)	2147-6470
Scope