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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

L. Melton, Protein arrays: proteomics in multiplex, Nature 429 (2004) 101–107.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.C. Daily, B.H. Walker, Seeking the great transition, Nature 403 (2000) 243–245.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Kumada, K. Muraki, Y. Hirayama, Low-frequency spin dynamics in a canted antiferromagnet, Science 313 (2006) 329–332.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Que, M.-Y. Hung, C. Yeang, A. Gonen, T.A. Prohaska, X. Sun, C. Diehl, A. Määttä, D.E. Gaddis, K. Bowden, J. Pattison, J.G. MacDonald, S. Ylä-Herttuala, P.L. Mellon, C.C. Hedrick, K. Ley, Y.I. Miller, C.K. Glass, K.L. Peterson, C.J. Binder, S. Tsimikas, J.L. Witztum, Oxidized phospholipids are proinflammatory and proatherogenic in hypercholesterolaemic mice, Nature 558 (2018) 301–306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Hurst, Primary Care Trust Workforce Planning and Development, Whurr Publishers Ltd, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kaiser, M. Kurath, S. Maasen, C. Rehmann-Sutter, eds., Governing Future Technologies: Nanotechnology and the Rise of an Assessment Regime, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. Yin, I. Kaku, J. Tang, J. Zhu, Genetic Algorithm-based Fuzzy Nonlinear Programming, in: I. Kaku, J. Tang, J. Zhu (Eds.), Data Mining: Concepts, Methods and Applications in Management and Engineering Design, Springer, London, 2011: pp. 55–86.

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, Unexplained Lower Back Pain? It Could Be Ankylosing Spondylitis, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/unexplained-lower-back-pain-it-could-be-ankylosing-spondylitis/ (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, Race to the Top: Survey of School Districts’ Capacity to Implement Reform (GAO-15-317SP, April 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-295, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.R. Mott, Sun compass orientation in juvenile green sea turtles, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 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]

J. Poniewozik, Rebooting the Dawn of Silicon Valley, New York Times (2016) C1.

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