How to format your references using the International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 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]

Fortin D. Geochemistry. What biogenic minerals tell us. Science 2004;303:1618–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Artal-Sanz M, Tavernarakis N. Prohibitin couples diapause signalling to mitochondrial metabolism during ageing in C. elegans. Nature 2009;461:793–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chang M-M, Zhang J, Miao D. A lamprey from the Cretaceous Jehol biota of China. Nature 2006;441:972–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kim Y, Shim H, Kim K, Park H, Jang S, Park Y. Profiling individual human red blood cells using common-path diffraction optical tomography. Sci Rep 2014;4:6659.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Guinebretière R. X-ray Diffraction by Polycrystalline Materials. London, UK: ISTE; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Johnson C. Forests for the People: The Story of America’s Eastern National Forests. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Williams K. What can the Historian of Science Learn from the Historian of the Fine Arts? In: Williams K, editor. Crossroads: History of Science, History of Art: Essays by David Speiser, vol. II, Basel: Springer; 2011, p. 41–52.

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 Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Should We Be Using Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitisers? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/should-we-be-using-alcoholbased-hand-sanitisers/ (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. Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kulavuz-Onal D. English Language Teachers’ Learning to Teach with Technology through Participation in an Online Community of Practice: A Netnography of Webheads in Action. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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]

Kenigsberg B. The Fencer. New York Times 2017:C8.

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 Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Abbreviation	Int. J. Pediatr. Adolesc. Med.
ISSN (print)	2352-6467
Scope