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

Wassarman PM. Reproductive biology: Sperm protein finds its mate. Nature 2014;508:466–467.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allman ES, Rhodes JA. Evolution. Trees, fast and accurate. Science 2010;327:1334–1335.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reich DS, Mechler F, Victor JD. Independent and redundant information in nearby cortical neurons. Science 2001;294:2566–2568.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hemerly AS, Prasanth SG, Siddiqui K, Stillman B. Orc1 controls centriole and centrosome copy number in human cells. Science 2009;323:789–793.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell D. Parris’s Standard Form of Building Contract. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Heine VM. Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Brain Diseases: Understanding the Methods, Epigenetic Basis, and Applications for Regenerative Medicine. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Acharya MS, Wu W, Auer M, te Kamp L. Centrifuge Model Test of a Bamboo Crib Wall. In: Wu W, editor. Recent Advances in Modeling Landslides and Debris Flows, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 49–56.

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

Hale T. This Fish Can Survive Crazy Levels Of Pollution Thanks To Rapid Evolution. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-fish-can-survive-crazy-levels-of-pollution-thanks-to-rapid-evolution/ (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. Space Station: Prime Contract Changes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peng E. Teaching and Coaching Brazilian Jiujitsu: An Instructional Manual. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Broaden Immunity For Officers. New York Times 2008:A16.

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