How to format your references using the Circulation citation style

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

Chambers J. Planetary science: A chronometer for Earth’s age. Nature. 2014;508:51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Relling MV, Evans WE. Pharmacogenomics in the clinic. Nature. 2015;526:343–350.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levis RJ, Menkir GM, Rabitz H. Selective bond dissociation and rearrangement with optimally tailored, strong-field laser pulses. Science. 2001;292:709–713.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Rozema J, van Geel B, Björn LO, Lean J, Madronich S. Paleoclimate. Toward solving the UV puzzle. Science. 2002;296:1621–1622.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sericola B. Markov Chains. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Sheng QZ, Wang G, Jensen CS, Xu G, editors. Web Technologies and Applications: 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2012, Kunming, China, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Tehranipoor M, Guin U, Forte D. Physical Tests for Counterfeit Detection. In: Guin U, Forte D, editors. Counterfeit Integrated Circuits: Detection and Avoidance. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 75–93.

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 Circulation.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Astronomers Have Discovered A New Nearby Super-Earth [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-have-discovered-a-new-nearby-superearth/

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. Federal Student Loans: Education Could Improve Direct Loan Program Customer Service and Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roberts JE. Process evaluation of the Instant Word Notebook. 2010;

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 C. Lesson One: The Price the Contractor Quotes Is an Estimate. New York Times. 2007;F4.

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	Circulation
Abbreviation	Circulation
ISSN (print)	0009-7322
ISSN (online)	1524-4539
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)