How to format your references using the Cardiorenal Medicine citation style

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

Holmes D. Ovarian cancer: beyond resistance. Nature. 2015 Nov;527(7579):S217.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dermitzakis ET, Clark AG. Genetics. Life after GWA studies. Science. 2009 Oct;326(5950):239–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai L, Dalal CK, Elowitz MB. Frequency-modulated nuclear localization bursts coordinate gene regulation. Nature. 2008 Sep;455(7212):485–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

La Spina A, Paolicchi P, Kryszczyńska A, Pravec P. Retrograde spins of near-Earth asteroids from the Yarkovsky effect. Nature. 2004 Mar;428(6981):400–1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kromidas S. Der HPLC-Experte. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2014.

An edited book

Jungheim ES, editor. Obesity and Fertility: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Romero C, Garcia-Valdez M, Alanis A. A Comparative Study of Blog Comments Spam Filtering with Machine Learning Techniques. In: Melin P, Kacprzyk J, Pedrycz W, editors. Soft Computing for Recognition Based on Biometrics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 57–72.

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 Cardiorenal Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Next Steps of HIV Treatment [Internet]. IFLScience. 2013 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/next-steps-hiv-treatment/

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. Comments on Legislation To Establish a Department of Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sumner I. Quantum wavepacket ab initio molecular dynamics: Simulating quantum nuclear effects in complex systems. 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

Murphy MJO. Friday File: When the Ball First Dropped on New Year’s Eve. New York Times. 2016 Jan;C26.

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	Cardiorenal Medicine
Abbreviation	Cardiorenal Med.
ISSN (print)	1664-3828
ISSN (online)	1664-5502
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Urology