How to format your references using the Cardiology and Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardiology and Therapy. 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. Cohen J. Breakdown + Breakdown runners-up. Science. 2014;346:1450–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Galiana I, Green C. Let the global technology race begin. Nature. 2009;462:570–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Imaizumi T, Kay SA, Schroeder JI. Circadian rhythms. Daily watch on metabolism. Science. 2007;318:1730–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nakanishi K, Bonnefond L, Kimura S, Suzuki T, Ishitani R, Nureki O. Structural basis for translational fidelity ensured by transfer RNA lysidine synthetase. Nature. 2009;461:1144–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sóbester A, Forrester AIJ. Aircraft Aerodynamic Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Abraham A, Hassanien A-E, Sná¿el V, editors. Computational Social Network Analysis: Trends, Tools and Research Advances. London: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bein D, Datta AK, Sathyanarayanan BA. Efficient Broadcasting by Selective Forwarding. In: Papadopoulos GA, Badica C, editors. Intelligent Distributed Computing III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2009, Ayia Napa, Cyprus,October 2009. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 43–52.

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 Cardiology and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Davis J. What Does Chemotherapy Do To Your Brain? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cause-chemo-brain-discovered/

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. Aviation Safety: New Airlines Illustrate Long-Standing Problems in FAA’s Inspection Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Oct. Report No.: RCED-97-2.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tripputi MT. Use of mediation in designing clinical trials with two primary endpoints [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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. Baker AL, Rosenberg E, Mueller B. Police Sergeant Fatally Shot in the Bronx; Another Is Injured. New York Times. 2016 Nov 4;A16.

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	Cardiology and Therapy
Abbreviation	Cardiol. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2193-8261
ISSN (online)	2193-6544
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine