How to format your references using the International Journal of Neonatal Screening citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Neonatal Screening. 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

Laporte, R. Recruiters and Academia. Nature 2004, 428, 876.

A journal article with 2 authors

Petersen, C.P.; Reddien, P.W. Smed-Betacatenin-1 Is Required for Anteroposterior Blastema Polarity in Planarian Regeneration. Science 2008, 319, 327–330.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalab, P.; Weis, K.; Heald, R. Visualization of a Ran-GTP Gradient in Interphase and Mitotic Xenopus Egg Extracts. Science 2002, 295, 2452–2456.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cloos, P.A.C.; Christensen, J.; Agger, K.; Maiolica, A.; Rappsilber, J.; Antal, T.; Hansen, K.H.; Helin, K. The Putative Oncogene GASC1 Demethylates Tri- and Dimethylated Lysine 9 on Histone H3. Nature 2006, 442, 307–311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Darbyshire, P.; Hampton, D. Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using MATLAB ®; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014; ISBN 9781118905029.

An edited book

Rereading Schleiermacher: Translation, Cognition and Culture; Seruya, T., Justo, J.M., Eds.; New Frontiers in Translation Studies; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016; ISBN 9783662479483.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheli, F.; Diana, G. Dynamical Systems Subjected to Force Fields. In Advanced Dynamics of Mechanical Systems; Diana, G., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 413–553 ISBN 9783319181998.

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 International Journal of Neonatal Screening.

Blog post

Hale, T. Antarctic’s Gigantic Ice Crack Is Fast Approaching Crunch Time Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/antarctics-gigantic-ice-crack-is-fast-approaching-crunch-time/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Problems Found With Government Acquisition and Use of Computers From November 1965 to December 1976; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1977;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gandarilla, A.H. Family Preservation: A Content Analysis of Literature. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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. One High School Band and the Changes It Wrought. New York Times 2011, A31B.

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	International Journal of Neonatal Screening
Abbreviation	Int. J. Neonatal Screen.
ISSN (online)	2409-515X
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