How to format your references using the The Journal of Pain citation style

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

Meyer R: Finding the true value of US climate science. Nature 482:133, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gillon J, Yakir D: Influence of carbonic anhydrase activity in terrestrial vegetation on the 18O content of atmospheric CO2. Science 291:2584–7, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Young WR, Roberts AJ, Stuhne G: Reproductive pair correlations and the clustering of organisms. Nature 412:328–31, 2001.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Perfeito L, Fernandes L, Mota C, Gordo I: Adaptive mutations in bacteria: high rate and small effects. Science 317:813–5, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackevičius V: Introduction to Stochastic Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

Schiff D, Kesari S, Wen PY, editors: Cancer Neurology In Clinical Practice: Neurologic Complications of Cancer and Its Treatment. Second Edition. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Fersini E, Archetti F, Messina E: Towards a Smooth E-Justice: Semantic Models and Machine Learning. In: Fathi M, editor. Integration of Practice-Oriented Knowledge Technology: Trends and Prospectives Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; page 57–702013.

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 The Journal of Pain.

Blog post

Hale T: What Are All The Elements In The Periodic Table Actually Used For? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/what-are-all-the-elements-in-the-periodic-table-actually-used-for/

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: Federal Research: The SEMATECH Consortium’s Start-up Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Nov. Report No.: RCED-90-37.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schwartz J: Essays on unemployment insurance and the business cycle [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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

Saslow L: Brentwood Sets a Dress Code Into Motion. New York Times :14LI3, 2005.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^3,4.
This sentence cites four references ^3,4,7,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Pain
Abbreviation	J. Pain
ISSN (print)	1526-5900
ISSN (online)	1528-8447
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Clinical Neurology Neurology