How to format your references using the Neonatology citation style

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

Russo E. Success in an uneven market. Nature. 2003 Jul;424(6948):597.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hering JG, Ingold KM. Water management. Water resources management: what should be integrated? Science. 2012 Jun;336(6086):1234–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Humanes-Valera D, Foffani G, Aguilar J. Increased cortical responses to forepaw stimuli immediately after peripheral deafferentation of hindpaw inputs. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec;4:7278.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bartels C, Hock C, Huwer J, Kuhnen R, Schwöbel J, von Issendorff B. Probing the angular momentum character of the valence orbitals of free sodium nanoclusters. Science. 2009 Mar;323(5919):1323–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama M, Kiamouche W, Batatia H. Connections Management Strategies in Satellite Cellular Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Amyot D, Williams AW, editors. System Analysis and Modeling: 4th International SDL and MSC Workshop, SAM 2004, Ottawa, Canada, June 1-4, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Dobkin PL, Hassed CS. Steps for Starting and Sustaining Programs. In: Hassed CS, editor. Mindful Medical Practitioners: A Guide for Clinicians and Educators. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 65–74.

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 Neonatology.

Blog post

Hale T. The Horrifying Reason For One Woman’s Earache [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-horrifying-reason-for-one-womans-earache/

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. International Air Passengers: Staffing Model for Airport Inspections Personnel Can Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Douville S. The lived experience of being a European wife to a U.S. Marine: A heuristic study. 2014

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

Poniewozik J. In the Better of Two Hereafters, but Still Crabby About It. New York Times. 2016 Sep;C6.

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	Neonatology
Abbreviation	Neonatology
ISSN (print)	1661-7800
ISSN (online)	1661-7819
Scope	Developmental Biology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health