How to format your references using the Basic Research in Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Basic Research in Cardiology. 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

Spurgeon D (2003) Canada boosts spending on science. Nature 421:880

A journal article with 2 authors

Moreira D, López-García P (2005) Comment on “The 1.2-megabase genome sequence of Mimivirus.” Science 308:1114; author reply 1114

A journal article with 3 authors

Dreger DS, Ford SR, Walter WR (2008) Source analysis of the Crandall Canyon, Utah, mine collapse. Science 321:217

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wen P, Zheng N, Li L, Shi Q (2014) Symmetrically periodic segregation in a vertically vibrated binary granular bed. Sci Rep 4:6914

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pederson LD (2015) Dialectical Behavior Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Tuteja N, Singh Gill S (2013) Plant Acclimation to Environmental Stress. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Bergqvist T (2016) The Everyday Life of Young Long-Term Unemployed in Sweden: Coping with Limited Participation and Feelings of Inferiority. In: Lahusen C, Giugni M (eds) Experiencing Long-Term Unemployment in Europe: Youth on the Edge. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 107–138

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 Basic Research in Cardiology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Track Near-Earth Objects On Asteroid Day 2016. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/track-nearearth-objects-on-asteroid-day-2016/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1977) The National School Lunch Program: Is It Working? U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jackson RA (2017) Musculoskeletal Injuries in California Ocean Lifeguards. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Davey M, Walsh MW (2015) Pensions and Politics Fuel Crisis in Illinois. New York Times A9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [4–6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Basic Research in Cardiology
Abbreviation	Basic Res. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0300-8428
ISSN (online)	1435-1803
Scope	Physiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)