How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Research citation style

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

Check Hayden E. The automated lab. Nature 2014;516:131–132.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joanicot M, Ajdari A. Applied physics. Droplet control for microfluidics. Science 2005;309:887–888.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackerman LKG, Lovell MM, Weix DJ. Multimetallic catalysed cross-coupling of aryl bromides with aryl triflates. Nature 2015;524:454–457.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

Liu B-H, Wißmann S, Hu X-M, Zhang C, Huang Y-F, Li C-F, Guo G-C, Karlsson A, Piilo J, Breuer H-P. Locality and universality of quantum memory effects. Sci Rep 2014;4:6327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Courant R, McShane EJ. Differential and Integral Calculus. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1988.

An edited book

Lund DE, Carr PR, eds. Revisiting The Great White North?: Reframing Whiteness, Privilege, and Identity in Education (Second Edition). Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Thibodeau K. Research Issues in Archival Provenance. In: Lemieux VL, ed. Building Trust in Information: Perspectives on the Frontiers of Provenance. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p69–78.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Researchers Discover Unique Aging ‘Signature’ In Brains Of Mice And Humans. IFLScience.

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

Government Accountability Office. James Webb Space Telescope: Project Meeting Commitments but Current Technical, Cost, and Schedule Challenges Could Affect Continued Progress

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

LaPoint JL. The effects of aviation -based error management training on perioperative safety attitudes

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

Loomis G. Carnal Knowledge in a Modern Metropolis: Babylon. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Research
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Res.
ISSN (print)	0008-6363
ISSN (online)	1755-3245
Scope	Physiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)