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]

Benton TG. Ecology. Managing farming’s footprint on biodiversity. Science 2007;315:341–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Raes F, Swart R. Climate change. Climate assessment: what’s next? Science 2007;318:1386.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Labeit A, Peinemann F, Kedir A. Cervical cancer screening service utilisation in UK. Sci Rep 2013;3:2362.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Comeau S, Edmunds PJ, Lantz CA, Carpenter RC. Water flow modulates the response of coral reef communities to ocean acidification. Sci Rep 2014;4:6681.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kazovsky LG, Cheng N, Shaw W-T, Gutierrez D, Wong S-W. Broadband Optical Access Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Bos J. The Self-Marginalization of Wilhelm Stekel: Freudian Circles Inside and Out. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kaushik A. India, OPEC, and an Agenda for Energy Security. In: Mathur S, editor. Trade, the WTO and Energy Security: Mapping the Linkages for India, New Delhi: Springer India; 2014, p. 147–82.

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]

Fang J. Multi-Cellular Life May Have Begun One Billion Years Earlier Than We Thought. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/large-multi-celled-life-may-have-began-one-billion-years-earlier-we-thought/ (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. Federal Agencies Could Save Time and Money With Better Computer Software Alternatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Malkus N. Beneath the district averages: Intradistrict differences in teacher compensation expenditures. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Lichtblau E. Maryland Man Accused of Tapping Money From ISIS Operatives for a U.S. Attack. New York Times 2015:A26.

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

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