How to format your references using the Clinical Research in Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Research in Cardiology. 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

Qi X-L (2012) Physics. Symmetry meets topology. Science 338:1550–1551

A journal article with 2 authors

Catania KC, Remple FE (2005) Asymptotic prey profitability drives star-nosed moles to the foraging speed limit. Nature 433:519–522

A journal article with 3 authors

Ganguly-Fitzgerald I, Donlea J, Shaw PJ (2006) Waking experience affects sleep need in Drosophila. Science 313:1775–1781

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Deshpande VV, Chandra B, Caldwell R, et al (2009) Mott insulating state in ultraclean carbon nanotubes. Science 323:106–110

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stewart R (2012) Plautus and Roman Slavery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wang J, Ding Z, Zou L, Zuo J (2014) Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

González DC, Rios RC (2009) Fire Danger, Fire Detection, Quantification of Burned Areas and Description of Post-Fire Vegetation in the Central Area of Chile. In: Chuvieco E (ed) Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 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 Clinical Research in Cardiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) New Antiviral Shows Potential Against Ebola. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2006) Financial Management Systems: Additional Efforts Needed to Address Key Causes of Modernization Failures. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Belflower KE (2012) The relationship between demographic and employment variables of job satisfaction among emergency nurses. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Rothenberg B (2017) After Unceremonious Exit, Indian Wells Tournament Moves On. New York Times D6

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Clinical Research in Cardiology
Abbreviation	Clin. Res. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	1861-0684
ISSN (online)	1861-0692
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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