How to format your references using the Pediatria Polska citation style

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

[1]

Osborne I. Light and Optics. Frontiers in light & optics. Introduction. Science 2015;348:514–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Oka T, McCall BJ. Astronomy. Disclosing identities in diffuse interstellar bands. Science 2011;331:293–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gavriil FP, Kaspi VM, Woods PM. Magnetar-like X-ray bursts from an anomalous X-ray pulsar. Nature 2002;419:142–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pridans C, Sauter KA, Baer K, Kissel H, Hume DA. CSF1R mutations in hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids are loss of function. Sci Rep 2013;3:3013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stewart R. Plautus and Roman Slavery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Ferrari A. L’arto inferiore nella paralisi cerebrale infantile: Semeiotica e chirurgia funzionale. Milano: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cimolini P, Cannell K. Supporting Technologies. In: Cannell K, editor. Agile Oracle Application Express, Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2012, p. 57–90.

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 Pediatria Polska.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. How Looking Into Space Can Help Our Understanding Of Climate Change On Earth. 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Comments on H.R. 5103, Snyder letter. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Coles J. The Balancing of Parental Support and Pressure in Fostering Collegiate Athletes. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 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

[1]

de la MERCED MJ. Oscar Health and Humana Team Up in Small-Firm Venture. New York Times 2017:B3.

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	Pediatria Polska
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0031-3939
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health