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]

Baker M. Postdoc redefined. Nature 2007;446:1114.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bork P, Copley R. Genome speak. Nature 2001;409:815.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chao BF, Wu YH, Li YS. Impact of artificial reservoir water impoundment on global sea level. Science 2008;320:212–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Jósvay K, Winter Z, Katona RL, Pecze L, Marton A, Buhala A, et al. Besides neuro-imaging, the Thy1-YFP mouse could serve for visualizing experimental tumours, inflammation and wound-healing. Sci Rep 2014;4:6776.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tsui JB-Y. Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Seyberth HW, Rane A, Schwab M, editors. Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology. vol. 205. First. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Seddon J, O’Donovan B, Zokaei K. Rethinking Lean Service. In: Macintyre M, Parry G, Angelis J, editors. Service Design and Delivery, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011, p. 41–60.

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. Can You Solve This First Grade Math Problem? IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/can-you-solve-first-grade-math-problem/ (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. Chemical Assessments: Low Productivity and New Interagency Review Process Limit the Usefulness and Credibility of EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Collinsworth BM. Hospital to housing: A grant proposal for specialized discharge planning services for people who are homeless. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Williams J. A Modern Masterpiece Turns 25. New York Times 2017:BR4.

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

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