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

Bystricky, M. (2003). Geophysics. Mantle flow revisited. Science (New York, N.Y.), 301(5637), 1190–1191.

A journal article with 2 authors

Insel, T. R., & Landis, S. (2014). Allison Doupe (1954-2014). Nature, 515(7527), 344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gibbs, M. J., Armstrong, J. S., & Gibbs, A. J. (2001). Recombination in the hemagglutinin gene of the 1918 “Spanish flu.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5536), 1842–1845.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fu, Z. Q., Guo, M., Jeong, B.-R., Tian, F., Elthon, T. E., Cerny, R. L., … Alfano, J. R. (2007). A type III effector ADP-ribosylates RNA-binding proteins and quells plant immunity. Nature, 447(7142), 284–288.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laycock, J., & Meeran, K. (2012). Integrated Endocrinology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ikeda, K. (2010). Imperfect Bifurcation in Structures and Materials: Engineering Use of Group-Theoretic Bifurcation Theory. (K. Murota, Ed.) (Vol. 149). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Prusinski, B., Phillips, S., & Chung, R. (2011). Basic Replication. In S. Phillips & R. Chung (Eds.), Expert Oracle GoldenGate (pp. 49–83). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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. (2016, December 19). From Ziggy Stardust Snakes To Klingon Newts: Over 160 New Species Discovered In The Greater Mekong. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/from-ziggy-stardust-snakes-to-klingon-newts-over-160-new-species-discovered-in-the-greater-mekong/

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. (1992). Intercollegiate Athletics: Revenues and Expenses, Gender and Minority Profiles, and Compensation in Athletic Departments (No. T-HRD-92-25). 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

Stevens, S. (2017). Aboard and Beyond (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Packer, G. (2013, May 20). Celebrating Inequality. New York Times, p. A21.

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