How to format your references using the Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care. 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

Clutton-Brock T. Cooperation between non-kin in animal societies. Nature. 2009;462(7269):51-57.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buluta I, Nori F. Quantum simulators. Science. 2009;326(5949):108-111.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loubeyre P, Occelli F, LeToullec R. Optical studies of solid hydrogen to 320 GPa and evidence for black hydrogen. Nature. 2002;416(6881):613-617.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Misteli T, Gunjan A, Hock R, Bustin M, Brown DT. Dynamic binding of histone H1 to chromatin in living cells. Nature. 2000;408(6814):877-881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moritz FG. Electromechanical Motion Systems. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Ruggieri F, ed. Criminal Proceedings, Languages and the European Union: Linguistic and Legal Issues. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Garnier E, Adams N, Sagaut P. Explicit Structural Modeling. In: Adams N, Sagaut P, eds. Large Eddy Simulation for Compressible Flows. Scientific Computation. Springer Netherlands; 2009:95-118.

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 Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care.

Blog post

Fang J. Simple Blood Test Could Detect All Types Of Cancer. IFLScience. July 28, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/simple-blood-test-could-detect-all-types-cancer/

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. Amtrak: Improved Management and Controls over Food and Beverage Service Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bade LL. Extending the Benefits of Alcohol and Drug Treatment: An Exploration of Volunteer Utilization and Delivery of Recovery Services. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 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

Gorman J. An Eye for Beauty. New York Times. May 29, 2017:D1.

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	Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care
Abbreviation	Curr. Probl. Pediatr. Adolesc. Health Care
ISSN (print)	1538-5442
Scope	General Medicine Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health