How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in 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 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

1. Gottschling DE. Molecular biology. Fragile delivery to the genome. Science. 2012;337:160–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Darst CR, Cummings ME. Predator learning favours mimicry of a less-toxic model in poison frogs. Nature. 2006;440:208–11.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jamtveit B, Austrheim H, Malthe-Sørenssen A. Accelerated hydration of the Earth’s deep crust induced by stress perturbations. Nature. 2000;408:75–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Heath DD, Heath JW, Bryden CA, Johnson RM, Fox CW. Rapid evolution of egg size in captive salmon. Science. 2003;299:1738–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wierenga ER. The Philosophy of Religion. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Fujita S. Quantum Theory of Conducting Matter: Superconductivity. Ito K, Godoy S, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Babushkina D. F.H. Bradley’s Conception of the Moral Self: A New Reading. In: Mander WJ, Panagakou S, editors. British Idealism and the Concept of the Self. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 67–87.

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 Treatment Options in Pediatrics.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. How To Grow Your Own Bismuth Crystals [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/grow-your-own-bismuth-crystals/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Budget Authority Rescission Proposals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 May. Report No.: OGC-82-11.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McDougal S. Military Town: Part One [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Casselman B. The Start-Up Slump Is a Drag on the Economy. Maybe Big Business Is to Blame. New York Times. 2017 Sep 20;B1.

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	Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics
Abbreviation	Curr. Treat. Options Pediatr.
ISSN (online)	2198-6088
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