How to format your references using the Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases. 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]

Gingras MJP. Physics. Observing monopoles in a magnetic analog of ice. Science 2009;326:375–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Minton DA, Malhotra R. A record of planet migration in the main asteroid belt. Nature 2009;457:1109–11.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fleurquin P, Ramasco JJ, Eguiluz VM. Systemic delay propagation in the US airport network. Sci Rep 2013;3:1159.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yu J, Xiao J, Ren X, Lao K, Xie XS. Probing gene expression in live cells, one protein molecule at a time. Science 2006;311:1600–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Elias H-G. Macromolecules. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Koshmanenko V. The Method of Rigged Spaces in Singular Perturbation Theory of Self-Adjoint Operators. vol. 253. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gündüz GF. Instructional Techniques. In: Akdeniz C, editor. Instructional Process and Concepts in Theory and Practice: Improving the Teaching Process, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 147–232.

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 of Cardiovascular Diseases.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Vomiting Machine Shows How Viruses Spread Through The Air. 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. Problems Affecting Operations at the St. Louis Postal Data Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Colchero Dorado R. Recovering memory in Jordi Soler’s “Los rojos de ultramar.” Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2008.

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. Ruling Helps Prosecutors In Death Penalty Cases. New York Times 2007:A16.

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 of Cardiovascular Diseases
Abbreviation	Arch. Cardiovasc. Dis.
ISSN (print)	1875-2136
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine