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

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

Southwood D (2012) Research collaboration: When international partnerships go wrong. Nature 488:451–453

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams WM, Ceci SJ (2005) Recruiters and academia. Academics worry about hiring “undiscovered geniuses.” Nature 435:534

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhai M, Zhao G, Zhang Q (2002) Is the Dongwanzi complex an Archean ophiolite? Science 295:923

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schmitt RW, Ledwell JR, Montgomery ET, et al (2005) Enhanced diapycnal mixing by salt fingers in the thermocline of the tropical Atlantic. Science 308:685–688

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wei J (2012) Great Inventions that Changed the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sörensen K, Sevaux M, Habenicht W, Geiger MJ (2009) Metaheuristics in the Service Industry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Alperson-Afil N, Goren-Inbar N (2016) Scarce but Significant: The Limestone Component of the Acheulean Site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel. In: Haidle MN, Conard NJ, Bolus M (eds) The Nature of Culture: Based on an Interdisciplinary Symposium ‘The Nature of Culture’, Tübingen, Germany. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 41–56

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 Clinical Research in Cardiology Supplements.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Shift Work Causes Breast Cancer In Mice, According To A New Study – So What Does This Mean For Humans? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/shift-work-causes-breast-cancer-mice-according-new-study-so-what-does-mean/. 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 (2013) Gas Pipeline Safety: Guidance and More Information Needed before Using Risk-Based Reassessment Intervals. 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

Fulton E (2010) Differential effects of nicotine on prospective memory, sustained attention, and working memory. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Murphy MJO (2017) Cinéma Spirité: Dinner and Drinks at the Movies. New York Times C8

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 Supplements
Abbreviation	Clin. Res. Cardiol. Suppl.
ISSN (print)	1861-0706
ISSN (online)	1861-0714
Scope	Molecular Biology Structural Biology General Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging