How to format your references using the Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine. 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]

Baker VR. Water and the martian landscape. Nature 2001;412:228–36.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dagan T, Martin W. Microbiology. Seeing green and red in diatom genomes. Science 2009;324:1651–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kim H, Chen J, Yu X. Ubiquitin-binding protein RAP80 mediates BRCA1-dependent DNA damage response. Science 2007;316:1202–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yasutomo K, Doyle C, Miele L, Fuchs C, Germain RN. The duration of antigen receptor signalling determines CD4+ versus CD8+ T-cell lineage fate. Nature 2000;404:506–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Curtis PM. Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Liu ZL, editor. Microbial Stress Tolerance for Biofuels: Systems Biology. vol. 22. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Funato T, Kurabayashi D, Nara M. Synchronization Control by Structural Modification of Nonlinear Oscillator Network. In: Gini M, Voyles R, editors. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 7, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2006, p. 41–50.

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 Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine.

Blog post

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Andrew E. Smartphone Microscope Diagnoses Parasitic Worm Infection. 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. Highway Trust Fund: Strategies for Safeguarding Highway Financing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gaete DO. Investigation of intuitive eating after intervention measured by the Intuitive Eating Scale. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

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Walsh MW. Detroit in Deal With Its Biggest Holdout Creditor. New York Times 2014:A20.

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	Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
Abbreviation	Semin. Fetal Neonatal Med.
ISSN (print)	1744-165X
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health