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]

Pielke RA Jr. Meteorology: are there trends in hurricane destruction? Nature 2005;438:E11; discussion E13.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Smyth MJ, Kershaw MH. Immunology. The adjuvant effects of antibodies. Science 2011;333:944–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Holland JN, Okuyama T, DeAngelis DL. Comment on “Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance.” Science 2006;313:1887; author reply 1887.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Scholtz G, Braband A, Tolley L, Reimann A, Mittmann B, Lukhaup C, et al. Ecology: Parthenogenesis in an outsider crayfish. Nature 2003;421:806.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ruiz J-L. Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Zenkov DV, editor. The Inverse Problem of the Calculus of Variations: Local and Global Theory. vol. 2. 1st ed. 2015. Paris: Atlantis Press; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Singer R, Zinser E. Business Process Management — S-BPM a New Paradigm for Competitive Advantage? In: Buchwald H, Fleischmann A, Seese D, Stary C, editors. S-BPM ONE – Setting the Stage for Subject-Oriented Business Process Management: First International Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 22, 2009. Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 48–70.

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]

Luntz S. Astronomers Spot Millions Of Stars Forming In Small Nearby Galaxy. 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. Intermodal Transportation: A Variety of Factors Influence Airport-Intercity Passenger Rail Connectivity. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Krishnan R. Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2014.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Fighter Jet Scrambled To Intercept U.S. Navy Plane. New York Times 2004:A6.

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

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