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 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

Tyagi S. Genomics. E. coli, what a noisy bug. Science 2010;329:518–519.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kishore S, Stamm S. The snoRNA HBII-52 regulates alternative splicing of the serotonin receptor 2C. Science 2006;311:230–232.

A journal article with 3 authors

Trumbore S, Brando P, Hartmann H. Forest health and global change. Science 2015;349:814–818.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Anderson WA, Banerjee U, Drennan CL, Elgin SCR, Epstein IR, Handelsman J, et al. Science education. Changing the culture of science education at research universities. Science 2011;331:152–153.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hines M. Marketing implant dentistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Salsa S. A Primer on PDEs: Models, Methods, Simulations. Milano: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Jaggar AM. “Saving Amina”: Global Justice for Women and Intercultural Dialogue. In: Follesdal A, Pogge T, editors. Real World Justice: Grounds, Principles, Human Rights, and Social Institutions, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005, p. 37–63.

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

Hamilton K. Safe And Ethical Ways To Edit The Human Genome. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/safe-and-ethical-ways-to-edit-the-human-genome/ (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. Protest of NASA RFP. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rostambeigi N. Analyzing the correlates of patients’ adoption of preventative health services: Perceived risk, cost and availability of health care services. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

Brantley B. The Goal Is to Win, and to Be Heard. New York Times 2016:C6.

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
Scope