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

Rabiner L (2003) Computer science. The power of speech. Science 301:1494–1495

A journal article with 2 authors

Benoist C, Mathis D (2002) Mast cells in autoimmune disease. Nature 420:875–878

A journal article with 3 authors

Scatena LF, Brown MG, Richmond GL (2001) Water at hydrophobic surfaces: weak hydrogen bonding and strong orientation effects. Science 292:908–912

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gordon MD, Dionne MS, Schneider DS, Nusse R (2005) WntD is a feedback inhibitor of Dorsal/NF-kappaB in Drosophila development and immunity. Nature 437:746–749

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Franssen J-M, Vila Real P (2016) Fire Design of Steel Structures. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Banichuk NV (2010) Structural Optimization with Uncertainties. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Wright P, McCarthy J, Meekison L (2005) Making Sense of Experience. In: Blythe MA, Overbeeke K, Monk AF, Wright PC (eds) Funology: From Usability to Enjoyment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–53

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

Andrew E (2015) How Floating Turbines Could Harness The Awesome Power Of The Tides. In: IFLScience. 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 (1991) Tax System Modernization: Status of On-Line Files Initiative and Telecommunications Planning. 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

Baghaei Lakeh A (2013) Approximate Analytical Solutions of a Generalized van der Pol Oscillator. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Wagner J (2016) Indians Get Contributions and Confidence From Unexpected Source. New York Times B11

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 [3, 5, 7, 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)