How to format your references using the The Journal of Pediatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Pediatrics. 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]

Cobb M. Wondrous order. Nature 2001;413:779.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Losos JB, Schluter D. Analysis of an evolutionary species-area relationship. Nature 2000;408:847–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rajca A, Wongsriratanakul J, Rajca S. Magnetic ordering in an organic polymer. Science 2001;294:1503–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Vitousek PM, Ladefoged TN, Kirch PV, Hartshorn AS, Graves MW, Hotchkiss SC, et al. Soils, agriculture, and society in precontact Hawai’i. Science 2004;304:1665–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chen CJ. Physics of Solar Energy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Beigl M, Christiansen H, Roth-Berghofer TR, Kofod-Petersen A, Coventry KR, Schmidtke HR, editors. Modeling and Using Context: 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 26-30, 2011. Proceedings. vol. 6967. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Stetson SJ. The Use of Clomiphene Citrate in Natural Cycle IVF. In: Allahbadia GN, Nitzschke M, editors. Minimal Stimulation and Natural Cycle In Vitro Fertilization, New Delhi: Springer India; 2015, p. 23–9.

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 The Journal of Pediatrics.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. First Primate’s Lifestyle All In The Ankles. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-primates-lifestyle-all-ankles/ (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. Information Technology: Investment Oversight and Management Have Improved but Continued Attention Is Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

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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Detoya MS. Canned Food Choices of College Students Using the Nuval ® Nutrient-Profiling System. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Sisario B. Music Distributor Helps Artists With a Tricky Part: Splitting Royalties. New York Times 2017:B4.

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	The Journal of Pediatrics
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr.
ISSN (print)	0022-3476
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health