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

Seitz F (2000) Decline of the generalist. Nature 403:483

A journal article with 2 authors

Oswald AJ, Wu S (2010) Objective confirmation of subjective measures of human well-being: evidence from the U.S.A. Science 327:576–579

A journal article with 3 authors

Gao Y, Chen G, Chan RHM (2014) Naming game on networks: let everyone be both speaker and hearer. Sci Rep 4:6149

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brunet I, Weinl C, Piper M, Trembleau A, Volovitch M, Harris W, Prochiantz A, Holt C (2005) The transcription factor Engrailed-2 guides retinal axons. Nature 438:94–98

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barron EN (2013) Game Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gabbay DM (2010) Revision, Acceptability and Context: Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Knight J (2014) Is Internationalisation of Higher Education Having an Identity Crisis? In: Maldonado-Maldonado A, Bassett RM (eds) The Forefront of International Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honor of Philip G. Altbach. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 75–87

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 D (2016) Scientists Turn One Pathogen Against Another In Fight Against Dengue And Zika. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-turn-one-pathogen-against-another-in-fight-against-dengue-and-zika/. 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) Quality Assurance: The Fastener Quality Act’s Small-Lot Exemption. 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

Rawashdeh MY (2013) A Relational Framework for Clustering and Cluster Validity and the Generalization of the Silhouette Measure. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Gustines GG (2017) Friendly Neighborhood Web-Slinger Exhibition. New York Times C16

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 [5–8].

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)