How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Rohn J. Give postdocs a career, not empty promises. Nature. 2011;471:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fortágh J, Zimmermann C. PHYSICS: Toward Atom Chips. Science. 2005;307:860–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Karlseder J, Smogorzewska A, de Lange T. Senescence induced by altered telomere state, not telomere loss. Science. 2002;295:2446–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nanork P, Paar J, Chapman NC, Wongsiri S, Oldroyd BP. Entomology: Asian honeybees parasitize the future dead. Nature. 2005;437:829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. McCurley L. Professional Rope Access. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Nield DA. Convection in Porous Media. 4th ed. 2013. Bejan A, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sakawa M, Yano H, Nishizaki I. Stochastic Linear Programming. In: Yano H, Nishizaki I, editors. Linear and Multiobjective Programming with Fuzzy Stochastic Extensions. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2013. p. 149–96.

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 Drugs and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Scientists Can Now Measure The “Mystical” Effects Of Magic Mushrooms [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-can-now-measure-mystical-effects-magic-mushrooms/

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. Communications Networks: Outcome-Based Measures Would Assist DHS in Assessing Effectiveness of Cybersecurity Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Apr. Report No.: GAO-13-275.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cong M. Predictive models of cytotoxicity as mediated by exposure to environmental toxicants and drugs [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. Walsh MW, Story L. U.S. Inquiry Said to Focus On a Fund In California. New York Times. 2011 Jan 7;B1.

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 Drugs and Therapy
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Drugs Ther.
ISSN (print)	0920-3206
ISSN (online)	1573-7241
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology