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]

C.R. Kahn, Medicine. Can we nip obesity in its vascular bud?, Science. 322 (2008) 542–543.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O. Ikkala, G. ten Brinke, Functional materials based on self-assembly of polymeric supramolecules, Science. 295 (2002) 2407–2409.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.H. Choi, M. Hiromura, A. Usheva, Transcription factor IIB acetylates itself to regulate transcription, Nature. 424 (2003) 965–969.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.-H. Lee, H.-L. Lo, W.-C. Tang, H.H.-Y. Hsiao, P.-M. Yang, A gene expression signature-based approach reveals the mechanisms of action of the Chinese herbal medicine berberine, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6394.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Choudhry, G. Landuyt, The Future of Finance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

W. Jonker, M. Petković, eds., Secure Data Management: Third VLDB Workshop, SDM 2006, Seoul, Korea, September 10-11, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B.H. Chow, The Virtual-Reality Campuses Project, in: Y. Cai (Ed.), 3D Immersive and Interactive Learning, Springer, Singapore, 2013: pp. 59–70.

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 Cor et Vasa.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Cats And Dogs Remember Things In The Same Way, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-dogs-remember-things-same-way/ (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, TQM Implementation at NASA, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Chung, Quasi-one-dimensional modeling of an adiabatic-compression preheated Ludwieg tube, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2015.

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]

L. Lee, Bridal Hunger Games, New York Times. (2012) ST14.

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