How to format your references using the Seminars in Pediatric Neurology citation style

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

Hellemans A: Getting into good company. Nature 416:5, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee WY, Sine SM: Principal pathway coupling agonist binding to channel gating in nicotinic receptors. Nature 438:243–247, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pesaran B, Nelson MJ, Andersen RA: Free choice activates a decision circuit between frontal and parietal cortex. Nature 453:406–409, 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lim DA, Huang Y-C, Swigut T, et al.: Chromatin remodelling factor Mll1 is essential for neurogenesis from postnatal neural stem cells. Nature 458:529–533, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tobias J, Hochhauser D: Cancer and its Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Baron E: Light-Based Therapies for Skin of Color. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Fukuda Y: Monitoring Groundwater Variations Using Precise Gravimetry on Land and from Space. In: Taniguchi M, editor. Groundwater and Subsurface Environments: Human Impacts in Asian Coastal Cities. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2011. p. 85–112. .

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 Pediatric Neurology.

Blog post

Hale T: The Helmeted Hornbill Is The Latest “Trend” In The Illegal Wildlife Trade. IFLScience, 2016.

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: Studies of U.S. Universities’ Research Equipment Needs Inconclusive. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marcus J: Voices of survival: Opera in Theresienstadt. , 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

Kishkovsky S, Herszenhorn DM: Punk Band’s Moscow Trial Offers Platform for Orthodox Protesters. New York Times A11, 2012.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Pediatric Neurology
Abbreviation	Semin. Pediatr. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	1071-9091
ISSN (online)	1558-0776
Scope	Clinical Neurology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health