How to format your references using the Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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

Lee PA. High-temperature superconductors. Some vortices like it hot. Nature. 2000 Aug;406(6795):467–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mandelli D, Tosatti E. Nanophysics: Microscopic friction emulators. Nature. 2015 Oct;526(7573):332–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinsabaugh RL, Hill BH, Follstad Shah JJ. Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of microbial organic nutrient acquisition in soil and sediment. Nature. 2009 Dec;462(7274):795–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Knott SRV, Wagenblast E, Khan S, Kim SY, Soto M, Wagner M, et al. Erratum: Asparagine bioavailability governs metastasis in a model of breast cancer. Nature. 2018 Apr;556(7699):135.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Razik H. Handbook of Asynchronous Machine with Variable Speed. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Chibbaro S. Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality: The Importance of Being Borderline. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Remacle J-F, Toulorge T, Lambrechts J. Robust Untangling of Curvilinear Meshes. In: Jiao X, Weill J-C, editors. Proceedings of the 21st International Meshing Roundtable. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 71–83.

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.

Blog post

Andrew E. Electric Motorways Could Charge Electric Cars On The Go [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Aug

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. Commercial Fishing Vessel: Administration of the Colintino Rose II Loan Guarantee. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goldberg DS. Poly (amido amine) dendrimers: Transepithelial transport mechanisms and applications in oral drug delivery. 2010

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Blast In Dagestan Kills 3. New York Times. 2005 Feb;A8.

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
Abbreviation	Cardiology
ISSN (print)	0008-6312
ISSN (online)	1421-9751
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pharmacology (medical)

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