How to format your references using the Progress in Pediatric Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Pediatric Cardiology. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

Schenkel R. Science policy. The challenge of feeding scientific advice into policy-making. Science 2010;330:1749–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Laurance WF, Balmford A. Land use: A global map for road building. Nature 2013;495:308–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Luo M, Fee MS, Katz LC. Encoding pheromonal signals in the accessory olfactory bulb of behaving mice. Science 2003;299:1196–201.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Luo ML, Zhou Z, Magni K, Christoforides C, Rappsilber J, Mann M, et al. Pre-mRNA splicing and mRNA export linked by direct interactions between UAP56 and Aly. Nature 2001;413:644–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Allen DS. Why Plato Wrote. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Atzeni P, Caplinskas A, Jaakkola H, editors. Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 12th East European Conference, ADBIS 2008, Pori, Finland, September 5-9, 2008. Proceedings. vol. 5207. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bonesso S, Comacchio A, Pizzi C. Open Innovation at Project Level: Key Issues and Future Research Agenda. In: Bonesso S, Comacchio A, Pizzi C, editors. Project-Based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation, London: Springer; 2014, p. 85–95.

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 Progress in Pediatric Cardiology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. This Is What Our Night Sky Would Look Like If Celestial Bodies Were Closer To Earth. IFLScience 2015.

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. Commercial Motor Vehicles: Significant Actions Remain to Improve Truck Safety. 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

[1]

Fink DC. An Exposure Assessment of Paper Dust in a Coupon Manufacturing Facility. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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]

Schilling MK. The Look of ’70s SoHo — Captured in One Apartment. New York Times 2017:M2240.

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	Progress in Pediatric Cardiology
Abbreviation	Prog. Pediatr. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	1058-9813
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health