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

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

Bagla P. INDIA: Disease Data Stolen in Lab Break-In. Science 2000;290:1668b–9b.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Krueger AB, Stone AA. Psychology and economics. Progress in measuring subjective well-being. Science 2014;346:42–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mitchell JF, Stoner GR, Reynolds JH. Object-based attention determines dominance in binocular rivalry. Nature 2004;429:410–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gruene P, Rayner DM, Redlich B, van der Meer AFG, Lyon JT, Meijer G, et al. Structures of neutral Au7, Au19, and Au20 clusters in the gas phase. Science 2008;321:674–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gup BE. Banking and Financial Institutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Wright D, Hert PD, editors. Privacy Impact Assessment. vol. 6. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Elings M. People-plant interaction: the physiological, psychological and sociological effects of plants on people. In: Hassink J, Van Dijk M, editors. FARMING FOR HEALTH, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006, p. 43–55.

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 Supplements.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. No Turning Back As Earth Permanently Passes CO2 Threshold. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/no-turning-back-as-earth-permanently-passes-co2-threshold/ (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. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program. 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]

Barrett C. Racial congruence and its effects on social integration and school involvement: A multi-level model. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Murphy MJO. Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times 2015:C33.

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 Supplements
ISSN (print)	1878-6480
Scope