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

Dupas P. Getting essential health products to their end users: subsidize, but how much? Science. 2014;345:1279–81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sarewitz D, Nelson R. Three rules for technological fixes. Nature. 2008;456:871–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lyko F, Ramsahoye BH, Jaenisch R. DNA methylation in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature. 2000;408:538–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nie J, Stevens T, Song Y, King JW, Zhang R, Ji S et al. Pacific freshening drives Pliocene cooling and Asian monsoon intensification. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:5474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory J. Central Counterparties. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2014.

An edited book

Marques de Sá JP. Minimum Error Entropy Classification. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Lee JA, Verleysen M. Distance Preservation. In: Lee JA, Verleysen M eds. Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction. New York, NY: Springer. 2007:69–131.

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 Awesome Video Takes you on a Tour Inside the Human Heart. (https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/watch-awesome-video-tour-inside-human-heart/). 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. Vulnerability of the Computer Society. 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

Day C. Medication-assisted treatment: Education for those who assist in the treatment of substance use disorders curriculum development. 2012.

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

Dunn S. Who Lives, Who Dies. New York Times. 2015:BR39.

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