How to format your references using the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 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

Chapman T: Drug discovery: the leading edge. Nature 2004; 430:109–115

A journal article with 2 authors

Bolton CT, Stoll HM: Late Miocene threshold response of marine algae to carbon dioxide limitation. Nature 2013; 500:558–562

A journal article with 3 authors

Guo D, Knight TE, McCusker JK: Angular momentum conservation in dipolar energy transfer. Science 2011; 334:1684–1687

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Harismendy O, Notani D, Song X, et al.: 9p21 DNA variants associated with coronary artery disease impair interferon-γ signalling response. Nature 2011; 470:264–268

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazimierczuk M: High-Frequency Magnetic Components. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Studies on Cardiovascular Disorders. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Neelameggham NR, Davis BR: Thermal Wastes from Energy Conversions and Global Anthropogenic Warming. In: Jha A, Wang C, Neelameggham NR, et al., editor(s). Energy Technology 2015: Carbon Dioxide Management and Other Technologies. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 29–35.

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 Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.

Blog post

Evans K: Breeder Creates Perfect “Emoji” Snake After 8 Years Of Trying. IFLScience 2017;

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: Information Technology: INS Needs to Better Manage the Development of Its Enterprise Architecture. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wasserman MM: Psychological Symptoms, Family Functioning, and Religious Coping in Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust Survivors. 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

Vecsey G: On Final Day, Tears and Jeers. New York Times 2011; B17

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	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Crit. Care Med.
ISSN (print)	1529-7535
ISSN (online)	1947-3893
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health