How to format your references using the Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux - Pratique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux - Pratique. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Searls DB. The language of genes. Nature 2002;420:211–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wilson JH, Elledge SJ. Cancer. BRCA2 enters the fray. Science 2002;297:1822–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Toulokhonov I, Artsimovitch I, Landick R. Allosteric control of RNA polymerase by a site that contacts nascent RNA hairpins. Science 2001;292:730–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ramsuran V, Naranbhai V, Horowitz A, Qi Y, Martin MP, Yuki Y, et al. Elevated HLA-A expression impairs HIV control through inhibition of NKG2A-expressing cells. Science 2018;359:86–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wills B. Purposely Profitable. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Brazier FMT, Nieuwenhuis K, Pavlin G, Warnier M, Badica C, editors. Intelligent Distributed Computing V: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2011, Delft, The Netherlands – October 2011. vol. 382. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kornacki JL. Processing Plant Investigations: Practical Approaches to Determining Sources of Persistent Bacterial Strains in the Industrial Food Processing Environment. In: Gurtler JB, Doyle MP, Kornacki JL, editors. The Microbiological Safety of Low Water Activity Foods and Spices, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 67–83.

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 Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux - Pratique.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. The Trouble With Using Synthetic Rhino Horn to Stop Poaching. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/trouble-using-synthetic-rhino-horn-stop-poaching/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Options Exist to Enhance Transportation Planning Capacity and Federal Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Seymour CR. Natives Versus Exotics and Grasses Versus Forbs: A Long-Term Study of Vegetation in La Jolla Valley. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

[1]

Saslow L. New President for the Long Island Rail Road. New York Times 2007:LI2.

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	Archives des Maladies du Coeur et des Vaisseaux - Pratique
Abbreviation	Arch. Mal. Coeur Vaiss. Pratique
ISSN (print)	1261-694X
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine