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

Krupp N. New surprises in the largest magnetosphere of our solar system. Science 2007;318:216–217.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis MB, Shaw RG. Range shifts and adaptive responses to Quaternary climate change. Science 2001;292:673–679.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neale MJ, Pan J, Keeney S. Endonucleolytic processing of covalent protein-linked DNA double-strand breaks. Nature 2005;436:1053–1057.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ribó JM, Crusats J, Sagués F, Claret J, Rubires R. Chiral sign induction by vortices during the formation of mesophases in stirred solutions. Science 2001;292:2063–2066.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Miller MA. Internet Technologies Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Schlechtriem P. UN Law on International Sales: The UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Sourabh Joshi, Sarabjit Kaur. Ant Colony Optimization Meta-heuristic for Solving Real Travelling Salesman Problem. In: Shetty NR, Prasad NH, Nalini N, editors. Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications: ERCICA 2015, Volume 3, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 55–63.

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

Carpineti A. Plastic From The UK Is Choking The Arctic. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/plastic-from-the-uk-is-choking-the-arctic/ (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. FAA Technical Center: Mission and Role in National Airspace System Plan Implementation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haile MD. A mental health community outreach and education program for Eritrean immigrants: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

Crow K. Brando: Off the Waterfront, Into the Seminar Rooms. New York Times 2000:1410.

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

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