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

Klarreich E. Top researchers plan to snub fertility conference. Nature. 2001;413:241.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacobson MZ, Masters GM. Energy. Exploiting wind versus coal. Science. 2001;293:1438.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gosse NJ, Nevin LM, Baier H. Retinotopic order in the absence of axon competition. Nature. 2008;452:892–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Blaauwgeers R, Eltsov VB, Krusius M, Ruohio JJ, Schanen R, Volovik GE. Double-quantum vortex in superfluid 3He-A. Nature. 2000;404:471–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam MR, Islam JS, Zatzman GM, Mughal MAH, Rahman MS. The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc. 2016.

An edited book

Mathematical Physiology: II: Systems Physiology. New York, NY: Springer. 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Boutlis CS, Riley EM, Anstey NM, de Souza JB. Glycosylphosphatidylinositols in Malaria Pathogenesis and Immunity: Potential for Therapeutic Inhibition and Vaccination. In: Langhorne J ed. Immunology and Immunopathogenesis of Malaria. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2005:145–85.

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

Scientists Have Found The Switch That Sends The Brain To Sleep. (https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-have-found-the-switch-that-sends-the-brain-to-sleep/). 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. Recent Development in Science and Technology: Progress and Concerns. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watson DJ. How the Lead Systems Integrator Experience Should Enhance Efforts to Rebuild the Defense Acquisition Workforce. 2010.

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

Kelly M. Notes From the Underground: New Yorkers Share Their Subway Stories. New York Times. 2002:146.

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