How to format your references using the Journal of Perinatology citation style

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

Rohn J. Give postdocs a career, not empty promises. Nature 2011; 471: 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berndt A, Deisseroth K. OPTOGENETICS. Expanding the optogenetics toolkit. Science 2015; 349: 590–591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frey S, Richter RP, Görlich D. FG-rich repeats of nuclear pore proteins form a three-dimensional meshwork with hydrogel-like properties. Science 2006; 314: 815–817.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zheng J, Ye Z-C, Sun N-L, Zhang R, Sheng Z-M, Shieh H-PD et al. Highly anisotropic metasurface: a polarized beam splitter and hologram. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6491.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells JT. Corporate Fraud Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

Medjahed B. Service Composition for the Semantic Web. Springer: New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Habib MR, Morris DL. Local and Regional Hyperthermia. In: Aigner KR, Stephens FO (eds). Induction Chemotherapy: Systemic and Locoregional. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016, pp 53–60.

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 Perinatology.

Blog post

Davis J. Study Suggests That Some Forms Of Autism May Not Just Affect The Brain. IFLScience. 2016.

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. DOD Overseas Schools: Additional Assurances of Educational Quality Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bristow LW. There is an old woman: The final stage of individuation. 2009.

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

Saslow L. Big Breaks on Unpaid Parking Tickets, for a Limited Time Only. New York Times. 2009; : LI6.

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	Journal of Perinatology
Abbreviation	J. Perinatol.
ISSN (print)	0743-8346
ISSN (online)	1476-5543
Scope	Obstetrics and Gynaecology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health