How to format your references using the Pediatric Infectious Disease citation style

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

Kirshner R. John Huchra (1948-2010). Nature. 2010;468(7321):174.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carlton JG, Martin-Serrano J. Parallels between cytokinesis and retroviral budding: a role for the ESCRT machinery. Science. 2007;316(5833):1908-1912.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rankenburg K, Brandon AD, Neal CR. Neodymium isotope evidence for a chondritic composition of the Moon. Science. 2006;312(5778):1369-1372.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

White SR, Sottos NR, Geubelle PH, et al. Autonomic healing of polymer composites. Nature. 2001;409(6822):794-797.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt P, Körber R, Coppers M. Sieben Und Siebmaschinen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2003.

An edited book

Eastwood M, Miller W, eds. Symmetries and Overdetermined Systems of Partial Differential Equations. Vol 144. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Putnik Z, Ivanović M, Budimac Z, Samuelis L. Wiki – A Useful Tool to Fight Classroom Cheating? In: Popescu E, Li Q, Klamma R, Leung H, Specht M, eds. Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2012: 11th International Conference, Sinaia, Romania, September 2-4, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:31-40.

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 Infectious Disease.

Blog post

Luntz S. Operator Blew Up Antares Rocket Deliberately. IFLScience. October 31, 2014.

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. HUD-Assisted Renters. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Weisko P. Wading Tiger Swimming Dragon: A Study on Comparative Indo-Sino Naval Development. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Wagner J. Harvey Picks Up a Win, With Plenty of Support. New York Times. May 29, 2017:D6.

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	Pediatric Infectious Disease
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Infect. Dis.
ISSN (print)	2212-8328
Scope