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

Jenkins A: Graduate journal: choosing a boss. Nature 428:350, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scruggs J, Jacob P: Engineering. Harvesting ocean wave energy. Science 323:1176–1178, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chih B, Engelman H, Scheiffele P: Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins. Science 307:1324–1328, 2005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Pater I, Hammel HB, Showalter MR, et al.: The dark side of the rings of Uranus. Science 317:1888–1890, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood JM: Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS 2014. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Jajoda S, Mazumdar C: Information Systems Security: 11th International Conference, ICISS 2015, Kolkata, India, December 16-20, 2015. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Lippitt CD, Stow DA, Toure S, et al.: Delineation and Classification of Urban Neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana, from Quickbird Imagery: Manual vs. Semi-automated Approaches. In: Weeks JR, Hill AG, Stoler J, editors. Spatial Inequalities: Health, Poverty, and Place in Accra, Ghana. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 57–71. .

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

Andrew E: NASA Study Finds There Was No “Pause” In Climate Change. 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

Government Accountability Office: Motor Carrier Safety: A Statistical Approach Will Better Identify Commercial Carriers That Pose High Crash Risks Than Does the Current Federal Approach. 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

Dorsey V: Impact of a family council intervention on owner knowledge and stewardship within a family business. , 2015.

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

Beard M: Wrath in the Time of Choler. New York Times BR18, 2017.

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