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]

Charlesworth D. Evolution. Competitive centromeres. Science 2008;322:1484–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Prins G, Rayner S. Time to ditch Kyoto. Nature 2007;449:973–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bo T-L, Zhang H, Zheng X-J. Charge-to-mass ratio of saltating particles in wind-blown sand. Sci Rep 2014;4:5590.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

DiMaio F, Terwilliger TC, Read RJ, Wlodawer A, Oberdorfer G, Wagner U, et al. Improved molecular replacement by density- and energy-guided protein structure optimization. Nature 2011;473:540–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kracke E-A, Lodde K. Leitfaden Straßenbrücken. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Hurrle D. Social Media for Scientific Institutions: How to Attract Young Academics by Using Social Media as a Marketing Tool. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nifontova IN, Svinareva DA, Chertkov JL, Savchenko VG, Drize NJ. Alterations of Frequency of Hematopoietic Precursors in Mice Subjected to Multiple Courses of Low-Dose G-CSF Injections. In: Bilko NM, Fehse B, Ostertag W, Stocking C, Zander AR, editors. Stem Cells and their Potential for Clinical Application, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008, p. 55–62.

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]

Andrew E. 12,000-Year-Old Icebergs Could Soon Be Available At A Bar Near You. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/12000-year-old-icebergs-could-be-available-bar-near-you/ (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. Nanotechnology: Better Guidance Is Needed to Ensure Accurate Reporting of Federal Research Focused on Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Potter RH. Marx Generator Charged via Biperiodic Resonant Cascaded Transformers. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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]

Crow K. Peace Breaks Out in Conflict Over Nobel Statue. New York Times 2001:146.

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