How to format your references using the Academic Pediatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Academic 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Nee S. More than meets the eye. Nature. 2004;429(6994):804-805.

A journal article with 2 authors

Csabai I, Szathmáry E. Comment on “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus.” Science. 2011;332(6034):1149; author reply 1149.

A journal article with 3 authors

Martin A, Baker TA, Sauer RT. Rebuilt AAA + motors reveal operating principles for ATP-fuelled machines. Nature. 2005;437(7062):1115-1120.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kapanidis AN, Margeat E, Ho SO, Kortkhonjia E, Weiss S, Ebright RH. Initial transcription by RNA polymerase proceeds through a DNA-scrunching mechanism. Science. 2006;314(5802):1144-1147.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pérez Fontán F, Mariño Espiñeira P. Modeling the Wireless Propagation Channel. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Bartz-Beielstein T, Branke J, Filipič B, Smith J, eds. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIII: 13th International Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 13-17, 2014. Proceedings. Vol 8672. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Boţ RI, Grad SM, Wanka G. Conjugate vector duality via scalarization. In: Grad SM, Wanka G, eds. Duality in Vector Optimization. Vector Optimization. Springer; 2009:123-180.

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 Academic Pediatrics.

Blog post

Andrew E. Autistic People Are More Creative Than You Might Think. IFLScience. August 19, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/autistic-people-are-more-creative-you-might-think/

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. Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Cooperative Program Needs Greater Oversight to Ensure Goals Are Met. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Liao W. The Epitope Specificity of the Human Anti-Candida Albicans Antibody M1g1. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Bury Lenin? Russian Minister Stirs Debate Over Soviet Past. New York Times. June 14, 2012:A6.

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	Academic Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Acad. Pediatr.
ISSN (print)	1876-2859
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health