How to format your references using the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology citation style

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

McCarty JG. Durable catalysts for cleaner air. Nature. 2000 Jan 6;403(6765):35–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murphy KG, Bloom SR. Gut hormones and the regulation of energy homeostasis. Nature. 2006 Dec 14;444(7121):854–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe Y, Martini JE, Ohmoto H. Geochemical evidence for terrestrial ecosystems 2.6 billion years ago. Nature. 2000 Nov 30;408(6812):574–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Miyazaki M, Fujii A, Ebata T, Mikami N. Infrared spectroscopic evidence for protonated water clusters forming nanoscale cages. Science. 2004 May 21;304(5674):1134–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Urick VJ Jr, Mckinney JD, Williams KJ. FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE PHOTONICS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Kuzmann E, Lázár K, editors. ISIAME 2008: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Industrial Applications of the Mössbauer Effect (ISIAME 2008) held in Budapest, Hungary, 17–22 August 2008. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. XII, 593 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Bandyopadhyay PS, Brittan G, Taper ML. Initial Difficulties Dispelled. In: Brittan G Jr, Taper ML, editors. Belief, Evidence, and Uncertainty: Problems of Epistemic Inference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 49–60. (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy).

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 Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.

Blog post

Taub B. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Put Tomatoes In The Fridge. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/heres-why-you-shouldnt-put-tomatoes-in-the-fridge/

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. Space Exploration: Cost, Schedule, and Performance of NASA’s Galileo Mission to Jupiter. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 May. Report No.: NSIAD-88-138FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jansson A. Stratigraphy, Landscape Evolution, and Past Environments at the Billy Big Spring Site, Montana [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

M’kay IP. REDEFINING POLITICAL TERMS; Need Seen for New Outlook on the Tariff and Isolation. New York Times. 1936 Sep 5;social news books14.

In-text citations

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

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	Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Adolesc. Gynecol.
ISSN (print)	1083-3188
ISSN (online)	1873-4332
Scope	General Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health