How to format your references using the Circulation Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Circulation Journal. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Angell CA. Insights into phases of liquid water from study of its unusual glass-forming properties. Science 2008;319:582–587.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hegerl GC, Solomon S. Climate change. Risks of climate engineering. Science 2009;325:955–956.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behrens TEJ, Hunt LT, Rushworth MFS. The computation of social behavior. Science 2009;324:1160–1164.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Seemann J, Pypaert M, Taguchi T, Malsam J, Warren G. Partitioning of the matrix fraction of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis in animal cells. Science 2002;295:848–851.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Troppens U, Erkens R, Müller W. Storage Networks Explained. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

Cervesato I, editor. Advances in Computer Science – ASIAN 2007. Computer and Network Security: 12th Asian Computing Science Conference, Doha, Qatar, December 9-11, 2007. Proceedings. vol. 4846. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Hargittai E, Hinnant A. Toward a Social Framework for Information Seeking. In: Spink A, Cole C, editors. New Directions in Human Information Behavior, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006, p. 55–70.

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 Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Even Without Written Codes, Ethical Standards For Human Research Existed Before World War II. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/even-without-written-codes-ethical-standards-human-research-existed-world-war-ii/ (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. Maritime Infrastructure: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Effectiveness of Federal Efforts to Support the Marine Transportation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hartl SD. The role of culture in managing diversity: How culturally based heuristics differ in minority and non-minority managerial decision making. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 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

Rosenberg M, Markoff J. At Heart of U.S. Strategy, Weapons That Can Think. New York Times 2016:A1.

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 Journal
ISSN (print)	1346-9843
ISSN (online)	1347-4820
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