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]

Wolfe JM. Neuroscience. Watching single cells pay attention. Science 2005;308:503–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Giljohann DA, Mirkin CA. Drivers of biodiagnostic development. Nature 2009;462:461–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Liu C, Linde AT, Sacks IS. Slow earthquakes triggered by typhoons. Nature 2009;459:833–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Berg IA, Kockelkorn D, Buckel W, Fuchs G. A 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate autotrophic carbon dioxide assimilation pathway in Archaea. Science 2007;318:1782–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Razik H. Handbook of Asynchronous Machine with Variable Speed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Kihl LA. Gender Politics in US College Athletic Departments: The Case of the University of Minnesota Merger. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Šalak A, Selecká M. Alloying and sintering of manganese steels by manganese vapour. In: Selecká M, editor. Manganese in Powder Metallurgy Steels, Cambridge: Cambridge International Science Publishing Ltd.; 2012, p. 39–71.

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. Universal Snake Venom Antidote On The Horizon. 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. Polar Satellites: NOAA Faces Challenges and Uncertainties that Could Affect the Availability of Critical Weather Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Brothers J. Nonparametric regression using wavelet transformations and noise reduction in audio signals. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Davis JH, Rappeport A, Kelly K, Abrams R. White House’s Tax Plan Puts Business at the Fore. New York Times 2017:A1.

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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