How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics. 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. Smith DR. Metamaterials. A cloaking coating for murky media. Science. 2014;345:384–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Harvey CD, Svoboda K. Locally dynamic synaptic learning rules in pyramidal neuron dendrites. Nature. 2007;450:1195–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yelshanskaya MV, Li M, Sobolevsky AI. Structure of an agonist-bound ionotropic glutamate receptor. Science. 2014;345:1070–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Paler A, Devitt SJ, Nemoto K, Polian I. Mapping of topological quantum circuits to physical hardware. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Simiu E. Design of Buildings for Wind. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Allen T, Ellis R, Petridis M, editors. Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems XVI: Proceedings of AI-2008, the Twenty-eighth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Balawi S, Khalaf K, Hitt GW. Leveraging Pedagogical Innovations for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education in the Middle East Context. In: Abdulwahed M, Hasna MO, Froyd JE, editors. Advances in Engineering Education in the Middle East and North Africa: Current Status, and Future Insights. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 59–115.

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 Intervention and Therapeutics.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. ‘Ultracool’ Dwarf Star Hosts Three Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Planets Just 40 Light-Years Away [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/ultracool-dwarf-star-hosts-three-potentially-habitable-earth-sized-planets-just-40-light-years/

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. Commercializing Landsat and the Weather Satellites. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Jan. Report No.: 126473.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Schmisseur BE. An Evaluation of Noise Reduction Effectiveness in Four Digital Hearing Aids [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2002.

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. Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton’s Camp Says It Is Wary Of Perot Inroads. New York Times. 1992 Oct 22;A1.

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 Intervention and Therapeutics
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Interv. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1868-4300
ISSN (online)	1868-4297
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging