How to format your references using the International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology. 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. Gunawardena J. Systems biology. Biological systems theory. Science. 2010;328:581–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ganachaud A, Wunsch C. Improved estimates of global ocean circulation, heat transport and mixing from hydrographic data. Nature. 2000;408:453–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Conaway RC, Brower CS, Conaway JW. Emerging roles of ubiquitin in transcription regulation. Science. 2002;296:1254–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Berns DM, Rudner MS, Valenzuela SO, Berggren KK, Oliver WD, Levitov LS, et al. Amplitude spectroscopy of a solid-state artificial atom. Nature. 2008;455:51–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Goldstein LSB, Schneider M. Stem Cells for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Shackelford TK, Hansen RD, editors. The Evolution of Sexuality. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chambel MR, Climent J, Pichot C, Ducci F. Mediterranean Pines (Pinus halepensis Mill. and brutia Ten.). In: Pâques LE, editor. Forest Tree Breeding in Europe: Current State-of-the-Art and Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 229–65.

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 Pediatric Endocrinology.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. This Distant Galaxy Is A Star-Forming Champion. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. The Lummi Indian School of Aquaculture. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Jun. Report No.: HRD-77-108.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lee E. Assessing the Well-Being Koreans and Korean Americans: Psychometric Validation Study for a Multidimensional Assessment of Well-Being [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2017.

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. Oestreich JR. Getting Inside the Mind of Bach. New York Times. 2017 Apr 25;C6.

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 Pediatric Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pediatr. Endocrinol.
ISSN (online)	1687-9856
Scope