How to format your references using the Current Atherosclerosis Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Atherosclerosis Reports. 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. Blow N. Antibodies: The generation game. Nature. 2007;447:741–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yao T, Cohen RE. A cryptic protease couples deubiquitination and degradation by the proteasome. Nature. 2002;419:403–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Aguirre A, Rubio ME, Gallo V. Notch and EGFR pathway interaction regulates neural stem cell number and self-renewal. Nature. 2010;467:323–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Moulin L, Munive A, Dreyfus B, Boivin-Masson C. Nodulation of legumes by members of the beta-subclass of Proteobacteria. Nature. 2001;411:948–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Howe TR. Marriages & Families in the 21st Century. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Qi X, Chen X, Wang Y, editors. Plant Metabolomics: Methods and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Braghieri A, Pacelli C, Bragaglio A, Sabia E, Napolitano F. The Hidden Costs of Livestock Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Podolian Cattle. In: Vastola A, editor. The Sustainability of Agro-Food and Natural Resource Systems in the Mediterranean Basin. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 47–56.

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 Current Atherosclerosis Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Would You Wear An Engagement Ring Made Out Of Your Fiance’s Wisdom Tooth? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/forget-diamonds-engagement-ring-made-out-wisdom-tooth/

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. ADA Paratransit Services: Survey of Public Transit Agency Officials on Services and Costs (GAO-13-18SP, November, 2012), an E-supplement to GAO-13-17. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Nov. Report No.: GAO-13-18SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fichera M. Transport of seawater and its influence on the transverse tensile strength of unidirectional composite materials [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 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. Greenhouse L. Supreme Court Restricts the Taxation of Income of Companies Based Out of State. New York Times. 2008 Apr 16;C3.

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	Current Atherosclerosis Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Atheroscler. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1523-3804
ISSN (online)	1534-6242
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine