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. Chang FR. Computer science. Is your computer secure? Science. 2009;325:550–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Giardina CP, Ryan MG. Evidence that decomposition rates of organic carbon in mineral soil do not vary with temperature. Nature. 2000;404:858–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Broza YY, Zuri L, Haick H. Combined volatolomics for monitoring of human body chemistry. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4611.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gee JS, Cande SC, Hildebrand JA, Donnelly K, Parker RL. Geomagnetic intensity variations over the past 780 kyr obtained from near-seafloor magnetic anomalies. Nature. 2000;408:827–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Brigo D, Morini M, Pallavicini A. Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Moore PK, Whiteman M, editors. Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology of Hydrogen Sulfide. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kato T. Linear and Quasi-Linear Equations of Evolution of Hyperbolic Type. In: Prato GD, Geymonat G, editors. Hyperbolicity: Lectures given at the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (CIME), held in Cortona (Arezzo), Italy, June 24 – July 2, 1976. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 125–91.

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. Hale T. Tech Giants Form Artificial Intelligence Supergroup, But Not Everyone’s In [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/tech-giants-form-artificial-intelligence-supergroup-but-not-everyones-in/

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. Digital Service Programs: Assessing Results and Coordinating with Chief Information Officers Can Improve Delivery of Federal Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Aug. Report No.: GAO-16-602.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chan BK. Hyperboloid-Parameterized Description of Diffusive Superconducting-Magnetic Hybrid Systems [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. Crow K. A Real City Bird: Cathedral’s Peacock Is Treated for Malaise. New York Times. 2002 Feb 10;147.

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