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

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

Koenig, R. (2000). IRANIAN SCIENCE: Iranian Women Hear the Call of Science. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5496), 1485.

A journal article with 2 authors

Russo, T., & Volterra, V. (2005). Comment on “children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5731), 56; author reply 56.

A journal article with 3 authors

Solov’yov, I. A., Domratcheva, T., & Schulten, K. (2014). Separation of photo-induced radical pair in cryptochrome to a functionally critical distance. Scientific reports, 4, 3845.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Qin, S., Kim, J., Niu, Q., & Shih, C.-K. (2009). Superconductivity at the two-dimensional limit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5932), 1314–1317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schoon, N. (2016). Modern Islamic Banking. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Beigl, M., Christiansen, H., Roth-Berghofer, T. R., Kofod-Petersen, A., Coventry, K. R., & Schmidtke, H. R. (Eds.). (2011). Modeling and Using Context: 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 26-30, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 6967). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Borzemski, L. (2009). Towards Web Performance Mining. In I.-H. Ting & H.-J. Wu (Eds.), Web Mining Applications in E-commerce and E-services (pp. 81–102). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Neuropsychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, August 21). Mysterious Ovoid Structure in Martian Meteorite Looks Like A Cell. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-ovoid-structure-martian-meteorite-looks-cell/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (2008). Radio Communications: Congressional Action Needed to Ensure Agencies Collaborate to Develop a Joint Solution (No. GAO-09-133). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clavio, G. (2008). Uses and gratifications of Internet collegiate sport message board users (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Crow, K. (2003, March 2). For N.Y.U.’s Senior Revels, Is Quieter Quiet Enough? New York Times, p. 145.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig 2000; Russo and Volterra 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Russo and Volterra 2005)
Three or more authors: (Qin et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Pediatric Neuropsychology
Abbreviation	J. Pediatr. Neuropsychol.
ISSN (print)	2199-2681
ISSN (online)	2199-2673
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