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]

Yamamoto Y. Semiconductor physics. Half-matter, half-light amplifier. Nature 2000;405:629–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bonduriansky R, Brassil CE. Senescence: rapid and costly ageing in wild male flies. Nature 2002;420:377.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Clement AC, Burgman R, Norris JR. Observational and model evidence for positive low-level cloud feedback. Science 2009;325:460–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tirichine L, Sandal N, Madsen LH, Radutoiu S, Albrektsen AS, Sato S, et al. A gain-of-function mutation in a cytokinin receptor triggers spontaneous root nodule organogenesis. Science 2007;315:104–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Benmammar B, Amraoui A. Radio Resource Allocation and Dynamic Spectrum Access. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Barth G, editor. Yarrowia lipolytica: Biotechnological Applications. vol. 25. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Soltakhanov SK, Yushkov MP, Zegzhda SA. The Mixed Problem Of Dynamics. New Class Of Control Problems. In: Yushkov MP, Zegzhda SA, editors. Mechanics of non-holonomic systems: A New Class of control systems, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 125–48.

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

[1]

Andrew E. Cat Parasite Modified Into An Effective Cancer Vaccine. 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. USCIS Transformation: Improvements to Performance, Human Capital, and Information Technology Management Needed as Modernization Proceeds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Martinez C. An after-school program at the middle school level for at-risk youth. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Kelly C. Cortlandt to Offer Plan To Lower Fuel Oil Costs. New York Times 2008:WE6.

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