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. Smaglik P. Turning oil into science: Norway. Nature. 2002;420:A13, A15.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Prather MJ, Blake DR. F. Sherwood Rowland (1927-2012). Nature. 2012;484:168.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rignot E, Rivera A, Casassa G. Contribution of the Patagonia Icefields of South America to sea level rise. Science. 2003;302:434–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fliessbach K, Weber B, Trautner P, Dohmen T, Sunde U, Elger CE, et al. Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum. Science. 2007;318:1305–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hellesland J, Challamel N, Casandjian C, Lanos C. Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Mrak M, Grgic M, Kunt M, editors. High-Quality Visual Experience: Creation, Processing and Interactivity of High-Resolution and High-Dimensional Video Signals. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Reynolds D, Ng ICL. Four Axiomatic Requirements for Service Systems Research. In: Kijima K, editor. Service Systems Science. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015. p. 69–81.

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. Evans K. Chinese Environmental Officials Arrested For Faking Air Pollution Results [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/chinese-environmental-officials-arrested-for-faking-air-pollution-results/

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. [Comments on STURA Act’s Effects on Funding for Los Angeles Metrorail System]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Sep. Report No.: B-226887.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Galan M. Educational practices to support homeless students [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2012.

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. Brantley B. Activists Haunted by Their K.G.B. Ordeal. New York Times. 2017 Jan 13;C5.

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

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