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. Liu J. Disease outbreak: Finish the fight against Ebola. Nature. 2015;524:27–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tabak LA, Collins FS. Sociology. Weaving a richer tapestry in biomedical science. Science. 2011;333:940–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mastrobuono-Battisti A, Perets HB, Raymond SN. A primordial origin for the compositional similarity between the Earth and the Moon. Nature. 2015;520:212–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wu C, Wang Z, Williams PT, Huang J. Renewable hydrogen and carbon nanotubes from biodiesel waste glycerol. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2742.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Goossens F. How to Implement Market Models Using VBA. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Guo K. Multiplication Operators on the Bergman Space. Huang H, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lacruz CR, Sáenz de Santamaría J, Bardales RH. Astrocytic Tumors. In: Saénz de Santamaría J, Bardales RH, editors. Central Nervous System Intraoperative Cytopathology. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 57–86.

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. Fang J. Greater Sage-Grouse Will Not Be Listed As Endangered. Can A Land-Use Plan Protect Them? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/greater-sage-grouse-will-not-be-listed-endangered-can-land-use-plan-protect-them/

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. Local Coordination Prevents Duplication of Services at Federally Sponsored Indian Education Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981 Jun. Report No.: HRD-81-101.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Shaker G. Off the track: The full-time nontenure -track faculty experience in English [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2008.

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. St. John Kelly E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times. 1993 Dec 26;139.

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