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

Frankel MS. Regulating the boundaries of dual-use research. Science. 2012 Jun;336(6088):1523–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Franklin CE, Axelsson M. An actively controlled heart valve. Nature. 2000 Aug;406(6798):847–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reber M, Burrola P, Lemke G. A relative signalling model for the formation of a topographic neural map. Nature. 2004 Oct;431(7010):847–53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Madelin G, Kline R, Walvick R, Regatte RR. A method for estimating intracellular sodium concentration and extracellular volume fraction in brain in vivo using sodium magnetic resonance imaging. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr;4:4763.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grigorenko YN, Chilingar GV, Sobolev VS, Andiyeva TA, Zhukova LI. Petroleum Accumulation Zones on Continental Margins. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Erdmann G, Kneuer M, editors. Regression of Democracy?: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Comparative Governance and Politics. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Antony PJ. Krishna and Neha. In: Antony PJ, editor. Segregation Hurts: Voices of Youth with Disabilities and Their Families in India. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013; pp 37–44.

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

Carpineti A. Dancing Planets Reveal How Gas Giants Migrate Towards Stars [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/planet-resonance-highlights-gas-giants-inwards-migration/

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. Transfer Students: Postsecondary Institutions Could Promote More Consistent Consideration of Coursework by Not Basing Determinations on Accreditation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jha JS. [3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Gem-Dicyanoepoxide and Electrophilic Reaction of Ethyl Atropate. 2013

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

Gustines GG. For Archie Comics, a Return to Superheroes. New York Times. 2011 Oct;B5.

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