How to format your references using the Seminars in Pediatric Neurology citation style

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

Watson B: Obituary: Bert Bolin (1925-2008). Nature 451:642, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lacroix B, Citovsky V: Characterization of VIP1 activity as a transcriptional regulator in vitro and in planta. Sci Rep 3:2440, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Q, He K, Huo H: Policy: Cleaning China’s air. Nature 484:161–162, 2012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mohamed BM, Movia D, Knyazev A, et al.: Citrullination as early-stage indicator of cell response to single-walled carbon nanotubes. Sci Rep 3:1124, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cabaniss DL, Cherry S, Douglas CJ, et al.: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Chakraborty G: Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: Second International Conference, ICDCIT 2005, Bhubaneswar, India, December 22-24, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Giannone D, Monti F, Reichlin L: Incorporating Conjunctural Analysis in Structural Models. In: Wieland V, editor. The Science and Practice of Monetary Policy Today: The Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2007. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 41–57. .

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 Seminars in Pediatric Neurology.

Blog post

Hale T: 4000-Year-Old Funeral Garden Unearthed In Egypt. IFLScience, 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/4000yearold-funeral-garden-unearthed-in-egypt/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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: Transportation Security Administration: Clear Policies and Oversight Needed for Designation of Sensitive Security Information. 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

Blumenthal PM: Local Land Use Regulatory Regimes and Residential Development Outcomes: An Analysis of Subdivision Review in Four Counties in the DC Region. , 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

Wagner J: After Striking Out, Nationals Swing a Trade. New York Times B12, 2016.

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	Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
Abbreviation	Semin. Pediatr. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	1071-9091
ISSN (online)	1558-0776
Scope	Clinical Neurology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health