How to format your references using the Pediatrics International citation style

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

Basu S. Astronomy. Brown-dwarf origins. Science. 2012 Jul 6;337(6090):43–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bollrath J, Powrie F. Immunology. Feed your Tregs more fiber. Science. 2013 Aug 2;341(6145):463–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeyl C, Vanderford T, Carter M. An evolutionary advantage of haploidy in large yeast populations. Science. 2003 Jan 24;299(5606):555–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zha Z, Wang J, Qu E, Zhang S, Jin Y, Wang S, et al. Polypyrrole hollow microspheres as echogenic photothermal agent for ultrasound imaging guided tumor ablation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dao TT, Ho Ba Tho MC. Biomechanics of the Musculoskeletal System. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Brusilovsky P, Kobsa A, Nejdl W, editors. The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. XII, 766 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 4321).

A chapter in an edited book

Andrews B, Hopper C. Evolution of the Curvature. In: Hopper C, editor. The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry: A Complete Proof of the Differentiable 1/4-Pinching Sphere Theorem. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 63–82. (Lecture Notes in Mathematics).

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 Pediatrics International.

Blog post

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. High Levels Of Fecal Bacteria Found On KFC’s Ice. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/high-levels-bacteria-poop-found-kfcs-ice/

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. Aviation Safety: Opportunities Exist for FAA to Refine the Controller Staffing Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: RCED-97-84.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cady SC. Successful student goal completion: A community college case study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2013.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: President Signs Land Reform Law. New York Times. 2001 Nov 14;A8.

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	Pediatrics International
Abbreviation	Pediatr. Int.
ISSN (print)	1328-8067
ISSN (online)	1442-200X
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health