How to format your references using the Clinical Trials and Regulatory Science in Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Trials and Regulatory Science 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

J.M. Ford, In the days of the comet, Nature 405 (2000) 889.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Jacob, L. Lum, Deconstructing the hedgehog pathway in development and disease, Science 318 (2007) 66–68.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Izumikawa, B. Sato, H. Kitagawa, Chondroitin sulfate is indispensable for pluripotency and differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3701.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Pereira, U. Pfisterer, D. Rylander, O. Torper, S. Lau, M. Lundblad, S. Grealish, M. Parmar, Highly efficient generation of induced neurons from human fibroblasts that survive transplantation into the adult rat brain, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.N. Henriksen, Scale Invariance, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J. Elen, E. Stahl, R. Bromme, G. Clarebout, eds., Links Between Beliefs and Cognitive Flexibility: Lessons Learned, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Ferrari, V. Zanotto, Thermal Comfort Approaches and Building Performance, in: V. Zanotto (Ed.), Building Energy Performance Assessment in Southern Europe, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 47–60.

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 Trials and Regulatory Science in Cardiology.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, What Makes An Animal Clever? Research Shows Intelligence Is not Just About Using Tools, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-makes-an-animal-clever-research-shows-intelligence-is-not-just-about-using-tools/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Attack Warning: Lack of System Architecture Contributes to Major Development Problems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.E. Davis, Sedimentation solutions for the Port of Gulfport, MS, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 2010.

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

[1]

J. Hodgman, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times (2017) MM22.

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 Trials and Regulatory Science in Cardiology
Abbreviation	Clin. Trials Regul. Sci. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	2405-5875
Scope