How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Diabetology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardiovascular Diabetology. 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. McCammon C. Geophysics. Deep diamond mysteries. Science. 2001;293:813–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Müller F-J, Loring JF. Network biology: A compass for stem-cell differentiation. Nature. 2014;513:498–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Li F, Martienssen R, Cande WZ. Coordination of DNA replication and histone modification by the Rik1-Dos2 complex. Nature. 2011;475:244–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang K, Kurmoo M, Wei L-Q, Zeng M-H. Iterative mass spectrometry and X-ray crystallography to study ion-trapping and rearrangements by a flexible cluster. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3516.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Weverka P. Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 All-in-One for Dummies®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Ecker W, Müller W, Dömer R, editors. Hardware-dependent Software: Principles and Practice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Camenisch J, Dubovitskaya M, Kohlweiss M, Lapon J, Neven G. Cryptographic Mechanisms for Privacy. In: Camenisch J, Fischer-Hübner S, Rannenberg K, editors. Privacy and Identity Management for Life. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 117–34.

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 Diabetology.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Giant Snowballs Show Up Along A Siberian Beach. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Total Quality Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Feb. Report No.: HEHS-94-76R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tahira A. Synthesis of Bivalent Organothiophosphate Inhibitors and Their Inhibition of Butyrylcholinesterase: Studies towards a Potential Treatment of Cognitive Loss Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Johnson G. Quantum Leaps. New York Times. 2012 Aug 5;BR1.

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 Diabetology
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Diabetol.
ISSN (online)	1475-2840
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism