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]

El-Azab A. Materials science. The statistical mechanics of strain-hardened metals. Science 2008;320:1729–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kai T, Spradling A. Differentiating germ cells can revert into functional stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster ovaries. Nature 2004;428:564–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pawloski JR, Hess DT, Stamler JS. Export by red blood cells of nitric oxide bioactivity. Nature 2001;409:622–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Srinivas N, Jetter P, Ueberbacher BJ, Werneburg M, Zerbe K, Steinmann J, et al. Peptidomimetic antibiotics target outer-membrane biogenesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Science 2010;327:1010–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Reiman J. As Free and as Just as Possible. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Barbin E, Pisano R, editors. The Dialectic Relation Between Physics and Mathematics in the XIXth Century. vol. 16. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Matwin S, Nin J, Sehatkar M, Szapiro T. A Review of Attribute Disclosure Control. In: Navarro-Arribas G, Torra V, editors. Advanced Research in Data Privacy, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 41–61.

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]

Andrews R. Bacteria Can “Talk” To Each Other Using Electrical Signals. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bacteria-can-talk-each-other-using-electrical-signals/ (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. Unmanned Aerial Systems: FAA Continues Progress toward Integration into the National Airspace. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Seevaratnam N. Forecasting Optimality in Resource Utilization for Cloud Computing Systems to Maximize Quality of Service. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2019.

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]

Williams J. Hey, Modernity, They’re Just Not Into You. New York Times 2017:C2.

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