How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardiovascular Pathology. 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]

Gillespie R. Community assembly through adaptive radiation in Hawaiian spiders. Science 2004;303:356–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Webster CR, Heymsfield AJ. Water isotope ratios D/H, 18O/16O, 17O/16O in and out of clouds map dehydration pathways. Science 2003;302:1742–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Geremia JM, Stockton JK, Mabuchi H. Real-time quantum feedback control of atomic spin-squeezing. Science 2004;304:270–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Joshi N, Shirsath N, Singh A, Joshi KS, Banerjee R. Endogenous lung surfactant inspired pH responsive nanovesicle aerosols: pulmonary compatible and site-specific drug delivery in lung metastases. Sci Rep 2014;4:7085.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pagliaro M. Nano-Age. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Uden L, Heričko M, Ting I-H, editors. Knowledge Management in Organizations: 10th International Conference, KMO 2015, Maribor, Slovenia, August 24-28, 2015, Proceedings. vol. 224. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Smith D, Friesen J. Persisting Data. In: Friesen J, editor. Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011, p. 257–308.

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 Pathology.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. We Can Still Keep Global Warming Below 2℃ – But The Hard Work Is About To Start. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/we-can-still-keep-global-warming-below-but-the-hard-work-is-about-to-start/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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 Projects: Extent of Projects with Unobligated Balances of Greater Than 85 Percent as of August 16, 2002. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Garcia AD. Long-term shifts in adolescent Nicotine reward following early methylphenidate exposure in male and female rats. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Hubbard B, Barnard A. In the Middle East, Another Conflict: What to Make of the Election of Trump. New York Times 2016:P3.

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 Pathology
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	1054-8807
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pathology and Forensic Medicine