How to format your references using the Cardio-Oncology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardio-Oncology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Bonetta L. Protein purification: fast forward. Nature. 2006;439:1017–21.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Marcus A, Oransky I. Science publishing: The paper is not sacred. Nature. 2011;480:449–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bonsall MB, Jansen VAA, Hassell MP. Life history trade-offs assemble ecological guilds. Science. 2004;306:111–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Maldonado AM, Doerner P, Dixon RA, Lamb CJ, Cameron RK. A putative lipid transfer protein involved in systemic resistance signalling in Arabidopsis. Nature. 2002;419:399–403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hoskins BJ, James IN. Fluid Dynamics of the Midlatitude Atmosphere. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Kwok-bun C. Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs. 1st ed. Wai-wan C, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sabella D, Caretti M, Tomaselli W, Palestini V, Cendón B, Valino J, et al. Evaluation of ON-OFF Schemes and Linear Prediction Methods for Increasing Energy Efficiency in Mobile Broadband Networks. In: Becvar Z, Bestak R, Kencl L, editors. NETWORKING 2012 Workshops: International IFIP TC 6 Workshops, ETICS, HetsNets, and CompNets, Held at NETWORKING 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 25, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 27–34.

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 Cardio-Oncology.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Alaskan Bears And Wolves In Wildlife Refuges To Be Hunted Again After Republican Vote [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/alaskan-bears-and-wolves-in-wildlife-refuges-to-be-hunted-again-after-republican-vote/

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. Reports Issued in August 1987. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Aug. Report No.: 134039.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lin H-C. Depression screening in ambulatory care [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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. Crow K. Many Families Waver on Plans For Holidays. New York Times. 2001 Oct 21;58.

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	Cardio-Oncology
Abbreviation	CardioOncology
ISSN (online)	2057-3804
Scope