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]

Holmes D. The problem with platinum. Nature 2015;527:S218-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Simpkins PG, Kuck VJ. Air entrapment in coatings by way of a tip-streaming meniscus. Nature 2000;403:641–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lee ASY, Kranzusch PJ, Cate JHD. eIF3 targets cell-proliferation messenger RNAs for translational activation or repression. Nature 2015;522:111–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Huang H, Regan KM, Lou Z, Chen J, Tindall DJ. CDK2-dependent phosphorylation of FOXO1 as an apoptotic response to DNA damage. Science 2006;314:294–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Samonas M. Financial Forecasting, Analysis, and Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Hunter W. Genome Mapping and Genomics in Arthropods. vol. 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Djonin DV, Krishnamurthy V. Structural Results on Optimal Transmission Scheduling over Dynamical Fading Channels: A Constrained Markov Decision Process Approach. In: Agrawal P, Fleming PJ, Zhang L, Andrews DM, Yin G, editors. Wireless Communications, New York, NY: Springer; 2007, p. 75–98.

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. Human DNA Gives Mice Bigger Brains Than Chimp DNA. IFLScience 2015.

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. District of Columbia: More Details Needed on Plans to Integrate Computer Systems With the Family Court and Use Federal Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dang H. The cummulative incidence estimate versus the Kaplan Meier method in medical research. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Greenhouse L. Justices to Consider Impact of Mental Illness on Death Penalty. New York Times 2007:A12.

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