How to format your references using the Jornal de Pediatria citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Jornal de Pediatria. 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

Koen D. Nuts and bolts. Reference points. Nature. 2004 Mar 4;428(6978):104.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jia T, Pósfai M. Connecting core percolation and controllability of complex networks. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun 20;4:5379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rabitz HA, Hsieh MM, Rosenthal CM. Quantum optimally controlled transition landscapes. Science. 2004 Mar 26;303(5666):1998–2001.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xiao WD, Zhang YY, Tao L, Aït-Mansour K, Chernichenko KY, Nenajdenko VG, et al. Impact of heterocirculene molecular symmetry upon two-dimensional crystallization. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun 24;4:5415.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kukushkin A. Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Zhou W. Stability and Synchronization Control of Stochastic Neural Networks. 1st ed. 2016. Yang J, Zhou L, Tong D, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. XVI, 357 p. 82 illus., 80 illus. in color. (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; vol. 35).

A chapter in an edited book

Voss P. Essentials of General Intelligence: The Direct Path to Artificial General Intelligence. In: Goertzel B, Pennachin C, editors. Artificial General Intelligence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 131–57. (Cognitive Technologies).

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 Jornal de Pediatria.

Blog post

Taub B. Researchers And Politicians Slam The War On Drugs As A Failure [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-politicians-slam-war-drugs-failure/

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. Surface Transportation: Improvements in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Commodity Flow Survey. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Feb. Report No.: RCED-98-90R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dawood AA. Relationship between mental health and treatment seeking in an urban Muslim community [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Murphy MJO. Friday File. New York Times. 2014 Nov 21;C31.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Jornal de Pediatria
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. (Rio J.)
ISSN (print)	0021-7557
ISSN (online)	1678-4782
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health