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]

Gasser SM. Visualizing chromatin dynamics in interphase nuclei. Science 2002;296:1412–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Schmiedmayer J, Berges J. Physics. Cold atom cosmology. Science 2013;341:1188–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schmauss C, Lee-McDermott Z, Medina LR. Trans-generational effects of early life stress: the role of maternal behavior. Sci Rep 2014;4:4873.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rovira-Asenjo N, Gumí T, Sales-Pardo M, Guimerà R. Predicting future conflict between team-members with parameter-free models of social networks. Sci Rep 2013;3:1999.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gardi F, Benoist T, Darlay J, Estellon B, Megel R. Mathematical Programming Solver Based on Local Search. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Song WW, Xu S, Wan C, Zhong Y, Wojtkowski W, Wojtkowski G, et al., editors. Information Systems Development: Asian Experiences. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bateman RP, Matthews GA, Hall FR. Ground-based application equipment. In: Lacey LA, Kaya HK, editors. Field Manual of Techniques in Invertebrate Pathology: Application and Evaluation of Pathogens for Control of Insects and other Invertebrate Pests, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 73–98.

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]

Andrew E. Why Antioxidants Might Actually Make Your Cancer Worse. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-antioxidants-might-actually-make-your-cancer-worse/ (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. Embedded Computers: B-1B Computers Must Be Upgraded to Support Conventional Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mycroft D. Minorities in leadership and financial performance of their Fortune 500 companies. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2012.

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]

Brantley B. A Measure Of Progress And Limits For Women. New York Times 2017:C1.

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