How to format your references using the Pediatric Rheumatology citation style

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

1. Sterman JD. Economics. Risk communication on climate: mental models and mass balance. Science. 2008;322:532–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Peters DH, Bloom G. Developing world: Bring order to unregulated health markets. Nature. 2012;487:163–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Keppler H, Wiedenbeck M, Shcheka SS. Carbon solubility in olivine and the mode of carbon storage in the Earth’s mantle. Nature. 2003;424:414–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fennimore AM, Yuzvinsky TD, Han W-Q, Fuhrer MS, Cumings J, Zettl A. Rotational actuators based on carbon nanotubes. Nature. 2003;424:408–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Galwey NW. Introduction to Mixed Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Maragos P, Potamianos A, Gros P, editors. Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Caserio C, Panaro D, Trucco S. Management Discussion and Analysis in the US Financial Companies: A Data Mining Analysis. In: Mancini D, Dameri RP, Bonollo E, editors. Strengthening Information and Control Systems: The Synergy Between Information Technology and Accounting Models. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 43–57.

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 Rheumatology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Female Anaconda At Safari Park Has “Virgin Birth.” IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Dec. Report No.: GAO-10-286T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Barbeau SJ. A Location-Aware Architecture Supporting Intelligent Real-Time Mobile Applications [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2012.

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. Morgan PL, Farkas G. Is Special Education Racist? New York Times. 2015 Jun 24;A23.

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 Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Rheumatol. Online J.
ISSN (online)	1546-0096
Scope	Immunology and Allergy Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Rheumatology

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