How to format your references using the Cor et Vasa citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cor et Vasa. 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

[1]

J.T. Overpeck, Climate change. The hole record, Nature 403 (2000) 714–715.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Genet, T.W. Ebbesen, Light in tiny holes, Nature 445 (2007) 39–46.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Moray, E.T. Game, N. Maxted, Prioritising in situ conservation of crop resources: a case study of African cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5247.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.L. Pitman, J.J. McGill, K.P. Keegan, R. Allada, A dynamic role for the mushroom bodies in promoting sleep in Drosophila, Nature 441 (2006) 753–756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E.J. McMillan, Not-for-Profit Budgeting and Financial Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

C. Kole, C.H. Michler, A.G. Abbott, T.C. Hall, eds., Transgenic Crop Plants, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Naunheimer, B. Bertsche, J. Ryborz, W. Novak, Matching Engine and Transmission, in: B. Bertsche, J. Ryborz, W. Novak (Eds.), Automotive Transmissions: Fundamentals, Selection, Design and Application, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 115–139.

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 Cor et Vasa.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Baby Giant Squid Caught In Japan, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fishermen-have-found-first-baby-giant-squids-ever/ (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, Problems Affecting Operations at the St. Louis Postal Data Center, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Harper, Going public, staying private, and everything in between, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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]

M. Kelly, Clinton Names Team to Probe U.S. Agencies, New York Times (1992) A16.

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	Cor et Vasa
Abbreviation	Cor Vasa
ISSN (print)	0010-8650
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine