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]

Georghiou L. Europe’s research system must change. Nature 2008;452:935–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vaughn MW, Martienssen R. It’s a small RNA world, after all. Science 2005;309:1525–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sugase K, Dyson HJ, Wright PE. Mechanism of coupled folding and binding of an intrinsically disordered protein. Nature 2007;447:1021–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Miura H, Satoh M, Nasuno T, Noda AT, Oouchi K. A Madden-Julian oscillation event realistically simulated by a global cloud-resolving model. Science 2007;318:1763–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zlokarnik M. Scale-Up in Chemical Engineering. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Krellenberg K, Hansjürgens B, editors. Climate Adaptation Santiago. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhang C, Wang J, Zhang M, Wu X. A New DVFS Algorithm Design for Multi-core Processor Chip. In: Xu W, Xiao L, Li J, Zhang C, Zhu Z, editors. Computer Engineering and Technology: 20th CCF Conference, NCCET 2016, Xi’an, China, August 10-12, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 40–51.

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]

Andrew E. Does Your Vulva Hurt? You Could Have Vulvodynia. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-your-vulva-hurt-you-could-have-vulvodynia/ (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. Education Information: Production and Quality Deserve Increased Attention. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

An D. Improved Flotation of Bastnaesite and Chalcopyrite. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 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]

Parker J. The Joys of Binge-Watching. New York Times 2016:BR10.

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