How to format your references using the Pediatrics International citation style

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

Liljas A. Biochemistry. Getting close to termination. Science. 2008 Nov 7;322(5903):863–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacPherson RD, Srolovitz DJ. The von Neumann relation generalized to coarsening of three-dimensional microstructures. Nature. 2007 Apr 26;446(7139):1053–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zilberman D, Cao X, Jacobsen SE. ARGONAUTE4 control of locus-specific siRNA accumulation and DNA and histone methylation. Science. 2003 Jan 31;299(5607):716–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yin Q, Jacobsen SB, Yamashita K, Blichert-Toft J, Télouk P, Albarède F. A short timescale for terrestrial planet formation from Hf-W chronometry of meteorites. Nature. 2002 Aug 29;418(6901):949–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perl J, DeMark TR. DeMark Indicators. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Ferrari G, editor. Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. XIV, 394 p. 144 illus. (Signals and Communication Technology).

A chapter in an edited book

Bergeron M, Conklin D. Temporal Patterns in Polyphony. In: Chew E, Childs A, Chuan CH, editors. Mathematics and Computation in Music: Second International Conference, MCM 2009, John Clough Memorial Conference New Haven, CT, USA, June 19-22, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 32–42. (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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 Pediatrics International.

Blog post

Taub B. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Huge Saber-Toothed Cat Paw Print Fossil Found In Argentina. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/huge-saber-toothed-cat-paw-print-found-argentina/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of State Automated Systems That Support Federal Human Services Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Feb. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-91.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Merritt KM. Predicting the Success of Running Back Prospects in the National Football League [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

Hodara S. Where Medieval Armor Meets the Aquatic. New York Times. 2013 Sep 22;WE9.

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	Pediatrics International
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Int.
ISSN (print)	1328-8067
ISSN (online)	1442-200X
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health