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

Perkel JM: Annotating the scholarly web. Nature 528:153–154, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chuong EB, Feschotte C: Evolution. Transposons up the dosage. Science 342:812–813, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bréon F-M, Tanré D, Generoso S: Aerosol effect on cloud droplet size monitored from satellite. Science 295:834–838, 2002.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wiechert U, Halliday AN, Lee DC, et al.: Oxygen isotopes and the moon-forming giant impact. Science 294:345–348, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boxer H: Profitable Day and Swing Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Gidron B, Bar M: Policy Initiatives Towards the Third Sector in International Perspective. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Fu Q, Wu Z, Ying X, et al.: Generating Chinese Calligraphy on Freeform Shapes. In: Gavrilova ML, Tan CJK, Sourin A, editors. Transactions on Computational Science XXVIII: Special Issue on Cyberworlds and Cybersecurity. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 69–87. .

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

Carpineti A: An Ancient Peruvian Mystery Has Been Solved From Space. IFLScience, 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nazca-mystery-has-been-solved-space/. 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

Government Accountability Office: Teacher Preparation Programs: Survey of State Entities that Oversee Teacher Preparation Programs (GAO-15-599SP, July 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-598. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dallara A: The “femme-homme” of the French Revolution: Gender boundaries and masculinization. , 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

Kishkovsky S: A Choreographer Vanishes In Murky Russian Mystery. New York Times E1, 2005.

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