How to format your references using the Atherosclerosis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Atherosclerosis. 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	Download the output style file
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]

P. Ahlquist, RNA-dependent RNA polymerases, viruses, and RNA silencing, Science 296 (2002) 1270–1273.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.C. Radisky, M.J. Bissell, Cancer. Respect thy neighbor!, Science 303 (2004) 775–777.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Shipley, D. Vile, E. Garnier, From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity, Science 314 (2006) 812–814.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.R. McCune, R.C. Fuller, A.A. Aquilina, R.M. Dawley, J.M. Fadool, D. Houle, J. Travis, A.S. Kondrashov, A low genomic number of recessive lethals in natural populations of bluefin killifish and zebrafish, Science 296 (2002) 2398–2401.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.H. Voldman, ESD, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

R.S.T. Lee, V. Loia, eds., Computational Intelligence for Agent-based Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Wiltschi, Protein Building Blocks and the Expansion of the Genetic Code, in: A. Glieder, C.P. Kubicek, D. Mattanovich, B. Wiltschi, M. Sauer (Eds.), Synthetic Biology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 143–209.

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 Atherosclerosis.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, How Shrimp Farming Wreaked Havoc On Sri Lanka’s Coasts, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-shrimp-farming-wreaked-havoc-sri-lanka-s-coasts/ (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, Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Needs Enhanced Oversight and Performance Measures, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.L. Laubacher, Simplifying “Inherently Governmental” Functions: Choosing between a Principled Approach or More of the Same, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2016.

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]

M. Billard, Check In /Check Out; MIAMI BEACH, FLA.: Soho Beach House, New York Times (2010) TR4.

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	Atherosclerosis
Abbreviation	Atherosclerosis
ISSN (print)	0021-9150
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine