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]

Bloom DE. 7 billion and counting. Science 2011;333:562–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Steinhardt PJ, Turok N. Why the cosmological constant is small and positive. Science 2006;312:1180–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cacace F, de Petris G, Troiani A. Experimental detection of tetranitrogen. Science 2002;295:480–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Frearson JA, Brand S, McElroy SP, Cleghorn LAT, Smid O, Stojanovski L, et al. N-myristoyltransferase inhibitors as new leads to treat sleeping sickness. Nature 2010;464:728–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Katsilambros N, Kanaka-Gantenbein C, Liatis S, Makrilakis K, Tentolouris N. Diabetic Emergencies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

George L, Vardanega T, editors. Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2014: 19th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Paris, France, June 23-27, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 8454. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pollet BG, Staffell I, Adamson K-A. Energy Generation and Usage in South Africa. In: Staffell I, Adamson K-A, editors. The Energy Landscape in the Republic of South Africa, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 17–9.

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]

Hale T. There’s Some Really Gross Stuff In A Lot Of Burgers. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/theres-some-gross-stuff-burgers-according-report/ (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. Commercial Space Transportation: Industry Trends, Government Challenges, and International Competitiveness Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Oliva DA. Technological mediation: The implications of technology on the human experience. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Kishkovsky S. Bury Lenin? Russian Minister Stirs Debate Over Soviet Past. New York Times 2012:A6.

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