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]

Wallsten S. High-tech cluster bombs. Nature 2004;428:121–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O’Keefe FR, Chiappe LM. Viviparity and K-selected life history in a Mesozoic marine plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia). Science 2011;333:870–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Salganik MJ, Dodds PS, Watts DJ. Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market. Science 2006;311:854–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Monson RK, Lipson DL, Burns SP, Turnipseed AA, Delany AC, Williams MW, et al. Winter forest soil respiration controlled by climate and microbial community composition. Nature 2006;439:711–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rodgers N. Learning to Reason. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2000.

An edited book

[1]

Manzoni G de, Roviello F, Siquini W, editors. Surgery in the Multimodal Management of Gastric Cancer. Milano: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Beers PJ, Veldkamp T. For or against innovation? The influence of images. In: van Latesteijn H, Andeweg K, editors. The TransForum Model: Transforming Agro Innovation Toward Sustainable Development, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 59–72.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Amazing Video Shows Our Solar System To Scale Across Seven Miles Of Desert. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-video-shows-our-solar-system-scale-across-seven-miles-desert/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Evaluation of Army’s Mobile Subscriber Equipment Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Claypool KK. Organizational Success: How the Presence of Happiness in the Workplace Affects Employee Engagement that Leads to Organizational Success. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine 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

[1]

Kercher S. From Pinup to Muse. New York Times 2016:D2.

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