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]

Wang N-X. China’s chemists should avoid the Vanity Fair. Nature 2011;476:253.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gómez P, Buckling A. Bacteria-phage antagonistic coevolution in soil. Science 2011;332:106–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhang F, Chen X, Vitousek P. Chinese agriculture: An experiment for the world. Nature 2013;497:33–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Quan T, Li J, Zhou H, Li S, Zheng T, Yang Z, et al. Digital reconstruction of the cell body in dense neural circuits using a spherical-coordinated variational model. Sci Rep 2014;4:4970.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Saguet P. Numerical Analysis in Electromagnetics. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Carter CB. Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering. 2nd ed. 2013. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ukimura O, Gill IS. Cryoablation for Renal Cell Carcinoma. In: Baba S, Ono Y, editors. Interventional Management of Urological Diseases, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2006, p. 65–74.

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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Hamilton K. Memory And Attention Are Affected By Much Lower Levels Of Dehydration Than Previously Thought. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/memory-and-attention-are-affected-by-much-lower-levels-of-dehydration-than-previously-thought/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Army Reserve Officer Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Campos-Doerfler L. The Role of Sgs1 and Exo1 in the Maintenance of Genome Stability. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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

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GISELA WILLIAMS; JOANNA KAKISSIS; ANDREW FERREN; SETH SHERWOOD; INGRID K. WILLIAMS; KATIE PARLA; SAMANTHA MURRAY GREENWAY; SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; SETH SHERWOOD;, Whitlock S. 15 Cities, Wrapped in a Bow, for Under $100. New York Times 2011:TR3.

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