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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology. 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

O’shea TJ. PCBs Not to Blame. Science. 2000;288:1965d–6d.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scheuring S, Sturgis JN. Chromatic adaptation of photosynthetic membranes. Science. 2005;309:484–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wild G, Gardner A, West SA. Adaptation and the evolution of parasite virulence in a connected world. Nature. 2009;459:983–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Reyes-Garcia V, Godoy R, Vadez V, Apaza L, Byron E, Huanca T et al. Ethnobotanical knowledge shared widely among Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivia. Science. 2003;299:1707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xiu L. Nanometer Frequency Synthesis Beyond the Phase-Locked Loop. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2012.

An edited book

Ilaslan H. Pediatric and Adult MRI Atlas of Bone Marrow: Normal Appearances, Variants and Diffuse Disease States. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Guieu V, Lagugné-Labarthet F. Raman Imaging of Micro- and Nano-Structured Materials. In: Zoubir A ed. Raman Imaging: Techniques and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2012:119–43.

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 Rheumatology.

Blog post

The Peanut Genes That Cause Allergy In Humans Have Been Identified. (https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/peanut-genes-cause-allergy-humans-identified/). Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. Transportation: Bibliography of GAO Documents, January 1985-December 1988. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ware SC. Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk in older women: A modifiable lifestyle risk factor. 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

Murphy MJO. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times. 2015:C30.

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 Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Scand. J. Rheumatol.
ISSN (print)	0300-9742
ISSN (online)	1502-7732
Scope	Immunology General Medicine Immunology and Allergy Rheumatology