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. Laursen L. Interdisciplinary research: Big science at the table. Nature. 2010;468:S2-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fischer J, Loss D. Physics. Dealing with decoherence. Science. 2009;324:1277–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pavlov P, Svendsen JI, Indrelid S. Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago. Nature. 2001;413:64–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li J, Ning Y, Hedley W, Saunders B, Chen Y, Tindill N, et al. The Molecule Pages database. Nature. 2002;420:716–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Frank P, Ottoboni MA. The Dose Makes the Poison. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Sansò F, Sideris MG, editors. Geoid Determination: Theory and Methods. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mönch L, Fowler JW, Mason SJ. Dispatching Approaches. In: Fowler JW, Mason SJ, editors. Production Planning and Control for Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facilities: Modeling, Analysis, and Systems. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 65–104.

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. Fang J. Gut Bacteria May Affect Mental Health in Humans [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gut-bacteria-may-affect-mental-health-humans/

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. Highway Funding: Alternatives for Distributing Federal Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Nov. Report No.: RCED-96-6.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chavez G. Creating Integrated, Inquiry Science Lessons Based on Early Childhood Science Activities [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Saslow L. Guardian Angels Welcome in Greenport. New York Times. 2006 Jul 22;LI9.

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
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