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]

Tollestrup AV. Robert Rathbun Wilson (1914-2000). Nature 2000;404:350.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lubchenco J, Sutley N. Science policy. Proposed U.S. policy for ocean, coast, and Great Lakes stewardship. Science 2010;328:1485–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lavine MS, Voss D, Coontz R. A robotic future. Introduction to special issue. Science 2007;318:1083.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Reiter S, Hülsdunk P, Woo T, Lauterbach MA, Eberle JS, Akay LA, et al. Elucidating the control and development of skin patterning in cuttlefish. Nature 2018;562:361–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Memming R. Semiconductor Electrochemistry. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Smith C. Digging It Up Down Under: A Practical Guide to Doing Archaeology in Australia. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sampson AP. Antileukotrienes in Asthma and Rhinitis. In: Pawankar R, Holgate ST, Rosenwasser LJ, editors. Allergy Frontiers: Therapy and Prevention, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2010, p. 63–90.

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. Video: The Amazing Rosetta Spacecraft and Philae Lander. IFLScience 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Cuban Embargo: Selected Issues Relating to Travel, Exports, and Telecommunications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bhavsar KS. Application of wavelet on quasi-periodic physiologic signals. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Crow K. Where “You Have a Hole in One” Doesn’t Mean You Have a Cavity. New York Times 2000:145.

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