How to format your references using the Cath Lab Digest citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cath Lab Digest. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Smaglik P. Europe goes back to basics. Nature. 2003 November; 426(6964): 365.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stegemann S, Bock R. Exchange of genetic material between cells in plant tissue grafts. Science. 2009 May; 324(5927): 649–651.

A journal article with 3 authors

Junker JP, Ziegler F, Rief M. Ligand-dependent equilibrium fluctuations of single calmodulin molecules. Science. 2009 January; 323(5914): 633–637.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Furnes H, de Wit M, Staudigel H, Rosing M, Muehlenbachs K. A vestige of Earth’s oldest ophiolite. Science. 2007 March; 315(5819): 1704–1707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jakubith M. Grundoperationen und chemische Reaktionstechnik. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 1998.

An edited book

Garvis S, Pendergast D (eds). Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Teacher Self-Efficacy. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Shaw RJ, Dhanda J. Genetics and Epigenetics of Head and Neck Cancer. In: Bernier J, ed. Head and Neck Cancer: Multimodality Management. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p93–106.

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 Cath Lab Digest.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Legacy of HeLa. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/legacy-hela/ (2013, 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

Government Accountability Office. The Concorde: Results of a Supersonic Aircraft’s Entry into the United States. CED-77-131Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; September 15, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Breckheimer I. Mapping habitat quality in conservation’s neglected geography. Doctoral DissertationUniversity of North Carolina; 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

Kelly RW. Washington’s Secret Gun Files. New York Times, June 16, 2007, A13.

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	Cath Lab Digest
ISSN (print)	1073-2667
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