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

Hodson R (2015) Small organ, big reach. Nature 528:S118-9

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaleeba JAR, Berger EA (2006) Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus fusion-entry receptor: cystine transporter xCT. Science 311:1921–1924

A journal article with 3 authors

Klaholz BP, Myasnikov AG, Van Heel M (2004) Visualization of release factor 3 on the ribosome during termination of protein synthesis. Nature 427:862–865

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Eddaoudi M, Kim J, Rosi N, Vodak D, Wachter J, O’Keeffe M, Yaghi OM (2002) Systematic design of pore size and functionality in isoreticular MOFs and their application in methane storage. Science 295:469–472

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Der Pijl P, Solomon LK, Lokitz J (2016) How To Design a Better Business. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Idowu MO, Dumur CI, Garrett CT (2015) Molecular Oncology Testing for Solid Tumors: A Pragmatic Approach, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kawano T, Iwama N, Ishihata H, Shimauchi H, Shimomura M (2012) Preparation and Biomedical Application of Self-Organized Honeycomb-Patterned Polymer Films. In: Sasaki K, Suzuki O, Takahashi N (eds) Interface Oral Health Science 2011. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 22–26

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 (2014) New Study Says Beef 10x More Damaging To The Environment Than Chicken, Pork Or Dairy Foods. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-study-says-beef-10x-more-damaging-environment-chicken-pork-or-dairy-foods/. 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 (2001) Information Technology: Leading Commercial Practices for Outsourcing of Services. 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

Reynolds PE (2012) Learning the Ropes: A Grounded Theory Study of Children Crossing Cultures. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Schwartz J (2017) Where Do All the Disgraced C.E.O.s Go? New York Times BU12

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 [2, 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)