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. Cottrell GW. Computer science. New life for neural networks. Science. 2006;313:454–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Padilla A, Gibson I. Science moves to centre stage. Nature. 2000;403:357–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kobayashi K, Yoshimura J, Hasegawa E. Coexistence of sexual individuals and genetically isolated asexual counterparts in a thrips. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3286.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ström L, Karlsson C, Lindroos HB, Wedahl S, Katou Y, Shirahige K, et al. Postreplicative formation of cohesion is required for repair and induced by a single DNA break. Science. 2007;317:242–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Zecchina A, Califano S. The Development of Catalysis. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Gavin DG. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environmental Change on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Brubaker LB, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Liu Q, Duan X, Peng C. Laser Interference Nanofabrication. In: Duan X, Peng C, editors. Novel Optical Technologies for Nanofabrication. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 153–78.

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. Farmers in China Discover Giant Armored Dinosaur Fossils [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/farmers-china-discover-giant-armored-dinosaur-fossils/

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. Financial Restatement Database. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Aug. Report No.: GAO-06-1053R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Qin R. Mid -ocean ridge morphology and tectonics: Insights from numerical modeling of faults and dikes [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia 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. Kenigsberg B. Ta’ang. New York Times. 2017 May 4;C9.

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