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

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

[1]

R.M. Alexander, Physiology. Walking made simple, Science 308 (2005) 58–59.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Lu, Y. Zuo, Neuroscience: Forgetfulness illuminated, Nature 525 (2015) 324–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. van den Engh, P. Nelson, J. Roach, Numismatic gyrations, Nature 408 (2000) 540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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M. Schellekens, R. Hoppeler, A. Perrin, J.V. Gomes, D. Boiron, A. Aspect, C.I. Westbrook, Hanbury Brown Twiss effect for ultracold quantum gases, Science 310 (2005) 648–651.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Li, Risk Assessment of Power Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

D. Zeng, ed., Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L.G. Pol, R.K. Thomas, Population Composition, in: R.K. Thomas (Ed.), The Demography of Health and Healthcare: Third Edition, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013: pp. 65–89.

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 Otorhinolaryngology.

Blog post

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E. Andrew, Astronomers Searched 100,000 Galaxies For Signs Of Advanced Alien Civilizations, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/study-100000-galaxies-fails-find-advanced-alien-civilizations/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Wider Use of Better Computer Software Technology Can Improve Management Control and Reduce Costs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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S.E. Wahl, Registered nurse preceptorship orientation: A study of the relationship between burnout rates of new graduates and number of preceptors worked with in the clinical orientation phase, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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

[1]

A.D.S. Burch, Facing a Void Left by Hate, New York Times (2017) A1.

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 Otorhinolaryngology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pediatr. Otorhinolaryngol.
ISSN (print)	0165-5876
Scope	General Medicine Otorhinolaryngology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health