How to format your references using the Scandinavian Journal of Pain citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Smaglik P. Language lessons: Heidelberg. Nature 2003;423:364–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kiel S, Little CTS. Cold-seep mollusks are older than the general marine mollusk fauna. Science 2006;313:1429–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Brennan MD, Cheong R, Levchenko A. Systems biology. How information theory handles cell signaling and uncertainty. Science 2012;338:334–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Jones WD, Cayirlioglu P, Kadow IG, Vosshall LB. Two chemosensory receptors together mediate carbon dioxide detection in Drosophila. Nature 2007;445:86–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bittner M. Temporality: Universals and Variation. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Zuber-Skerritt O. Lifelong Action Learning for Community Development: Learning and Development for a Better World. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Biolek D, Biolek Z. Fourth Fundamental Circuit Element: SPICE Modeling and Simulation. In: Tetzlaff R, editor. Memristors and Memristive Systems, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 105–62.

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 Scandinavian Journal of Pain.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Robot Chef That Can Cook 2,000 Meals Set To Go On Sale In 2017. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-chef-home-could-arrive-2017/ (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. Information Technology: VA and DOD Continue to Expand Sharing of Medical Information, but Still Lack Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Surges G. Generative Audio Systems: Musical Applications of Time-Varying Feedback Networks and Computational Aesthetics. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2015.

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]

(nyt) SK. Business Briefing | Russian Gas Monopoly Buys Newspaper. New York Times 2005:C2.

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	Scandinavian Journal of Pain
Abbreviation	Scand. J. Pain
ISSN (print)	1877-8860
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Clinical Neurology