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]

Elmegreen BG. Astronomy. Dark matter in galactic collisional debris. Science 2007;316:1132–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sack FD, Chen J-G. Plant science. Pores in place. Science 2009;323:592–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Frank F, Sonenberg N, Nagar B. Structural basis for 5’-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2. Nature 2010;465:818–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Han J, Zheng Y, Zhao B, Li S, Zhang Y, Gao C. Sequentially hetero-functional, topological polymers by step-growth thiol-yne approach. Sci Rep 2014;4:4387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Takezawa K. Guidebook to R Graphics Using Microsoft® Windows. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Mohapatra RN, Chowdhury DR, Giri D, editors. Mathematics and Computing: ICMC, Haldia, India, January 2015. vol. 139. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Battle-Baptiste W. Sweepin’ Spirits: Power and Transformation on the Plantation Landscape. In: Baugher S, Spencer-Wood SM, editors. Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes, New York, NY: Springer; 2010, p. 81–94.

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]

Luntz S. Common Pesticides May Lead To Early Puberty In Boys. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/common-pesticides-may-lead-to-early-puberty-in-boys/ (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. Overhead Costs: Unallowable Costs Charged by Rockwell Corporation, Rocketdyne Division. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bockler T. Legal advocacy program for low-income children with disabilities: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Murphy MJO. A Messy Look at the Family Mystery. New York Times 2013:AR18.

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

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