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

Cornet FH. SEISMOLOGY. Earthquakes induced by fluid injections. Science. 2015 Jun;348(6240):1204–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Insel TR, Cuthbert BN. Medicine. Brain disorders? Precisely. Science. 2015 May;348(6234):499–500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liang Y, Wu D, Fu R. Carbon microfibers with hierarchical porous structure from electrospun fiber-like natural biopolymer. Sci Rep. 2013 Jan;3:1119.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gao C, Bourke E, Scobie M, Famme MA, Koolmeister T, Helleday T, et al. Rational design and validation of a Tip60 histone acetyltransferase inhibitor. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun;4:5372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Huang Q, Jing S, Yi J, Zhen W. Innovative Testing and Measurement Solutions for Smart Grid. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Pancerz K, Zaitseva E, editors. Computational Intelligence, Medicine and Biology: Selected Links. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Hutson JM. Abnormal Embryology in DSD. In: Hutson JM, Warne GL, Grover SR, editors. Disorders of Sex Development: An Integrated Approach to Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012; pp 41–52.

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 Cardiorenal Medicine.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Watch Live As SpaceX Launches And Lands Yet Another Rocket [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-spacex-launches-and-lands-yet-another-rocket/

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. Performance and Accountability: Challenges Facing the Department of Transportation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gros TR. A templated agarose scaffold for axon guidance in the central and peripheral nervous system. 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

Crow K. 11,500 Sq. Ft., Avail. Jan. 1, (After the Inauguration). New York Times. 2001 Dec;144.

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