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

de Lanerolle P. Recruiters and academia. Top 10 tips for success in graduate school. Nature 2005;433:442.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pessa HKJ, Frilander MJ. Genetics. Minor splicing, disrupted. Science 2011;332:184–185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weiner S, Sagi I, Addadi L. Structural biology. Choosing the crystallization path less traveled. Science 2005;309:1027–1028.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li J, Ning Y, Hedley W, Saunders B, Chen Y, Tindill N, et al. The Molecule Pages database. Nature 2002;420:716–717.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolbarst AB, Capasso P, Wyant AR. Medical Imaging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Fred A, De Marsico M, editors. Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods: International Conference, ICPRAM 2013 Barcelona, Spain, February 15-18, 2013 Revised Selected Papers. vol. 318. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Diatta A, Giblin P. Pre-symmetry Sets of 3D Shapes. In: Fogh Olsen O, Florack L, Kuijper A, editors. Deep Structure, Singularities, and Computer Vision: First International Workshop, DSSCV 2005, Maastricht, The Netherlands, June 9-10, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005, p. 36–48.

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. Astronomers Discover Planetary System Much Like Our Own. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-discover-planetary-system-much-our-own/ (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. Technology: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Amezcua D. Increasing academic success for foster youth: Educational workshops and resource guides: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2016.

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

Sisario B, Rashbaum WK. Entrepreneur Behind Fyre Festival Is Arrested on Charges of Federal Wire Fraud. New York Times 2017: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
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