How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Toxicology citation style

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

Bruneau, B. G. (2008). The developmental genetics of congenital heart disease. Nature, 451(7181), 943–948.

A journal article with 2 authors

King-Jones, K., & Thummel, C. S. (2005). Developmental biology. Less steroids make bigger flies. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5748), 630–631.

A journal article with 3 authors

Adini, Y., Sagi, D., & Tsodyks, M. (2002). Context-enabled learning in the human visual system. Nature, 415(6873), 790–793.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zhou, Z., Kong, B., Yu, C., Shi, X., Wang, M., Liu, W., … Yang, S. (2014). Tungsten oxide nanorods: an efficient nanoplatform for tumor CT imaging and photothermal therapy. Scientific reports, 4, 3653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baines, P., Ferraro, J., & Rogers, P. (2010). The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Yen, H.-C., & Ibarra, O. H. (Eds.). (2012). Developments in Language Theory: 16th International Conference, DLT 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, August 14-17, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7410). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Adelaar, A. (2016). Austronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe Beaujard. In G. Campbell (Ed.), Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World (pp. 77–112). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Toxicology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, February 8). Aerial Footage Of The Enormous Antarctic Ice Crack That’s Worrying Scientists. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (2008). Runway Safety: Progress on Reducing Runway Incursions Impeded by Leadership, Technology, and Other Challenges (No. GAO-08-481T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goldgof, G. M. (2017). Drug Target Discovery Using Designer Drug Sensitive Yeast (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, January 25). 2 Shows Try to Shake Up Formula for Reality TV. New York Times, p. B1.

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 Toxicology
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	1530-7905
ISSN (online)	1559-0259
Scope	Molecular Biology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Toxicology