How to format your references using the Childhood Obesity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Childhood Obesity (CHI). 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 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

Yang LH. Periodical cicadas as resource pulses in North American forests. Science 2004;306(5701):1565–1567.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen MS, White MC. Combined effects on selectivity in Fe-catalyzed methylene oxidation. Science 2010;327(5965):566–571.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xia K, Rosakis AJ, Kanamori H. Laboratory earthquakes: the sub-Rayleigh-to-supershear rupture transition. Science 2004;303(5665):1859–1861.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ebert D, Haag C, Kirkpatrick M, et al. A selective advantage to immigrant genes in a Daphnia metapopulation. Science 2002;295(5554):485–488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant G, Broniatowski M. Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2016.

An edited book

Kastensmidt F, Rech P, (eds). FPGAs and Parallel Architectures for Aerospace Applications: Soft Errors and Fault-Tolerant Design. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Ganapol BD, Furfaro R. The Art of Analytical Benchmarking. In: Computational Methods in Transport: Verification and Validation. (Graziani F. ed). Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2008; pp. 105–134.

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 Childhood Obesity.

Blog post

Andrew E. Fly Over Pluto With This Animated Video From NASA’s New Horizons. IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/fly-over-pluto-animated-video-nasas-new-horizons/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: State Department Needs To Make Fundamental Improvements To Its Year 2000 Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bourgault RR. Multi-Scale Pedologic Investigation of Manganiferous Soils in the Maryland Piedmont. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD; 2008.

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

Stewart JB. Justifiably, This Buck Stopped With the Chief Executive. New York Times 2016;B3.

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	Childhood Obesity
ISSN (print)	2153-2168
ISSN (online)	2153-2176
Scope