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]

Lengauer C. Cancer. An unstable liaison. Science 2003;300:442–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Youk H, Lim WA. Secreting and sensing the same molecule allows cells to achieve versatile social behaviors. Science 2014;343:1242782.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Van Roy P, Daley AC, Briggs DEG. Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps. Nature 2015;522:77–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dolev M, Heiblum M, Umansky V, Stern A, Mahalu D. Observation of a quarter of an electron charge at the nu = 5/2 quantum Hall state. Nature 2008;452:829–34.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lane C. Magnolia. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Nikolaidis I, Wu K, editors. Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks: 9th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2010, Edmonton, AB, Canada, August 20-22, 2010. Proceedings. vol. 6288. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pichler F, Cifrain M. Application-Related Battery Modelling: From Empirical to Mechanistic Approaches. In: Thaler A, Watzenig D, editors. Automotive Battery Technology, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 53–69.

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]

Taub B. 99.85% Of Americans Will Know A Victim Of Gun Violence At Some Point In Their Lives. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/9985-of-americans-will-know-a-victim-of-gun-violence-at-some-point-in-their-lives/ (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. Establishing a Proper Fee Schedule Under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Aiken J. Virtually a leader: Mitigating process losses through shared team states. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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]

Kinsley M. Nagging NATO. New York Times 2017:SR2.

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