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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Clinical 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	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

Sovacool BK. Diversity: Energy studies need social science. Nature 2014; 511: 529–530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Salichos L, Rokas A. Inferring ancient divergences requires genes with strong phylogenetic signals. Nature 2013; 497: 327–331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pearson PD, Moje E, Greenleaf C. Literacy and science: each in the service of the other. Science 2010; 328: 459–463.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Hurst WJ, Tarka SM Jr, Powis TG, Valdez F Jr, Hester TR. Cacao usage by the earliest Maya civilization. Nature 2002; 418: 289–290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hasslacher C, Böhm S. Diabetes and the Kidney. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Patty BW (ed). Handbook of Operations Research Applications at Railroads. Boston, MA: Springer US

A chapter in an edited book

Lundgren-Åkerlund E, Aszòdi A. Integrin α10β1: A Collagen Receptor Critical in Skeletal Development. In: Gullberg D, editor. I Domain Integrins. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014: 61–71.

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 World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics.

Blog post

Carpineti A. The Best Close-Up Picture Of Pluto From New Horizons Yet. IFLScience. 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/best-close-pictures-pluto-new-horizons/

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. Essential Air Service: Changes in Passenger Traffic, Subsidy Levels, and Air Carrier Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ports MO. Laterally associated proteins modulate α6 integrin cleavage, a permissive process utilized during cancer metastasis. 2009.

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

Kelly C. A Remodeling Gift to Remind Tarrytown of a Church’s History. New York Times. 2008; : 14WE11.

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	World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics
ISSN (online)	2219-2808
Scope