How to format your references using the CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology. 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

1. Horton JC. Boundary disputes. Nature. 2000;406:565.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Castro JM, Dingwell DB. Rapid ascent of rhyolitic magma at Chaitén volcano, Chile. Nature. 2009;461:780–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sinclair ARE, Mduma S, Brashares JS. Patterns of predation in a diverse predator-prey system. Nature. 2003;425:288–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nan F, Cheng Z-Q, Wang Y-L, Zhang Q, Zhou L, Yang Z-J, et al. Manipulating nonlinear emission and cooperative effect of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots by coupling to a silver nanorod complex cavity. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Talbot DB. Frequency Acquisition Techniques for Phase Locked Loops. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Pfander GE, editor. Sampling Theory, a Renaissance: Compressive Sensing and Other Developments. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Miao J. An ERP Study of Semantic Anomalies in Second Language Processing. In: Liu D, Alippi C, Zhao D, Hussain A, editors. Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 38–45.

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 CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Argument Over Funding HIV PrEP Drug Reveals Prejudice About The Reality Of Some Gay Sex [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/argument-over-funding-hiv-prep-drug-reveals-prejudice-about-the-reality-of-some-gay-sex/

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. Independent Auditor’s Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2016 Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Nov. Report No.: GAO-17-157R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Jones C. Evolutionary changes in development associated with a transition in larval nutritional mode in spiralians [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Vecsey G. Indomitable Russell Values One Accolade Above the Rest. New York Times. 2011 Feb 13;SP1.

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	CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Radiol.
ISSN (print)	0174-1551
ISSN (online)	1432-086X
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging