How to format your references using the Pediatric Radiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pediatric Radiology. 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

Fuyuno I (2007) Plastic promises. Nature 446:715

A journal article with 2 authors

Vance V, Vaucheret H (2001) RNA silencing in plants--defense and counterdefense. Science 292:2277–2280

A journal article with 3 authors

Abou Chakra M, Hilbe C, Traulsen A (2014) Plastic behaviors in hosts promote the emergence of retaliatory parasites. Sci Rep 4:4251

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mann ME, Zhang Z, Rutherford S, et al (2009) Global signatures and dynamical origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly. Science 326:1256–1260

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zelterman D (2005) Discrete Distributions: Applications in the Health Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Tsao JW (2012) Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis, Management, and Rehabilitation. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Halmenschlager CM, de Andrade MJ, Tarragó DP, de Fraga Malfatti C (2011) Nanostructured Materials for Energy Applications. In: Bergmann CP, Andrade MJ de (eds) Nanostructured Materials for Engineering Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 57–73

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 Radiology.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Caffeine May Protect Older Women From Dementia. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1998) Public-Private Competitions: Access to Records Is Inhibiting Work on Congressional Mandates. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boyer MD (2009) Organizational improvisation within an episodic planning model: A systems perspective. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Wetherille K (2012) Kamakura’s Trail of Treasures. New York Times 0

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 Radiology
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Radiol.
ISSN (print)	0301-0449
ISSN (online)	1432-1998
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging