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

Wykes T. Cognitive remediation therapy needs funding. Nature. 2010;468:165–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gulev SK, Latif M. Ocean science: The origins of a climate oscillation. Nature. 2015;521:428–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hedde PN, Stakic M, Gratton E. Rapid measurement of molecular transport and interaction inside living cells using single plane illumination. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:7048.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rong H, Jones R, Liu A, Cohen O, Hak D, Fang A et al. A continuous-wave Raman silicon laser. Nature. 2005;433:725–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernando A, Worrall ST, Ekmekcioǧlu E. 3DTV. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2013.

An edited book

Business Modeling and Software Design: 5th International Symposium, BMSD 2015, Milan, Italy, July 6–8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing. 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kawasaki T, Motoyoshi Y. Experimental Constraints on the Decompressional P-T Paths of Rundvågshetta Granulites, Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica. In: Fütterer DK, Damaske D, Kleinschmidt G et al. eds. Antarctica: Contributions to Global Earth Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 2006:23–36.

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

Bizarre Photo Appears To Show Snake EATING Its Way Out Of Another Snake. (https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crazy-photo-appears-show-snake-eating-its-way-out-another-snake0/). 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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Strong Leadership and Partnerships Needed to Mitigate Risk of Major Disruptions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Purdioux L. Predicting deception detection ability based on the concept of self-compassionate personality trait, openness personality structure, and agreeableness personality structure. 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

Vecsey G. Jerry Coleman, 89, Yankee Infielder, Fighter Pilot and Voice of the Padres. New York Times. 2014:A15.

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

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