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

Boyd IL. Ecology. The art of ecological modeling. Science. 2012;337:306–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ostriker JP, Steinhardt P. New light on dark matter. Science. 2003;300:1909–13.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polat EO, Balcı O, Kocabas C. Graphene based flexible electrochromic devices. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6484.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jiang ZH, Lin L, Ma D, Yun S, Werner DH, Liu Z et al. Broadband and wide field-of-view plasmonic metasurface-enabled waveplates. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:7511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ansorge R. Mathematical Models of Fluiddynamics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. 2005.

An edited book

Caramia M. Multi-objective Management in Freight Logistics: Increasing Capacity, Service Level and Safety with Optimization Algorithms. London: Springer. 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Muijs D, Ainscow M, Chapman C, West M. Towards a Typology of Educational Networks. In: Ainscow M, Chapman C, West M eds. Collaboration and Networking in Education. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. 2011:37–48.

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

This Parasite Infested Snail Looks Like Something From A Horror Movie. (https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-parasite-infested-snail-looks-like-something-from-a-horror-movie/). 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. Telecommunications: Additional Federal Efforts Could Help Advance Digital Television Transition. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watts KS. The Effectiveness of a Social Story Intervention in Decreasing Disruptive Behavior in Autistic Children. 2008.

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

Romero S, Bosman J. As Waters Took Mother, a Child Held on to Life. 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	Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
Abbreviation	Scand. J. Rheumatol.
ISSN (print)	0300-9742
ISSN (online)	1502-7732
Scope	Immunology General Medicine Immunology and Allergy Rheumatology