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. Makovicky E. Comment on “Decagonal and quasi-crystalline tilings in medieval Islamic architecture.” Science. 2007;318:1383; author reply 1383.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Brewer PG, Peltzer ET. OCEANS. Limits to marine life. Science. 2009;324:347–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. West GB, Brown JH, Enquist BJ. A general model for ontogenetic growth. Nature. 2001;413:628–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cordaux R, Deepa E, Vishwanathan H, Stoneking M. Genetic evidence for the demic diffusion of agriculture to India. Science. 2004;304:1125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kivy P. Once-Told Tales. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Taylor M. A Year in the Life of a Third Space Urban Teacher Residency: Using Inquiry to Reinvent Teacher Education. Klein EJ, editor. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Otjacques B, Noirhomme M, Feltz F. Innovative Visualization Tools to Monitor Scientific Cooperative Activities. In: Luo Y, editor. Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 4th International Conference, CDVE 2007, Shanghai, China, September 16-20, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 33–41.

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. Luntz S. Life’s History Recorded On The Surface Of The Moon. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Highway Safety: Causes of Injury in Automobile Crashes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 May. Report No.: PEMD-95-4.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kaminsky E. Schumann’s Op. 14: Original, Revised and Edited (“Concerto without Orchestra” versus Piano Sonata No. 3) [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2006.

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. Joy S. Dare to Be Daring. New York Times. 2016 Nov 30;D13.

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