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. Schiermeier Q. Home truths. Nature. 2003;423:900–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schuchmann K, Müller V. Direct and reversible hydrogenation of CO2 to formate by a bacterial carbon dioxide reductase. Science. 2013;342:1382–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Shin S-B, Golovkin M, Reddy ASN. A pollen-specific calmodulin-binding protein, NPG1, interacts with putative pectate lyases. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5263.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bagchi J, Durret F, Neto GBL, Paul S. Giant ringlike radio structures around galaxy cluster Abell 3376. Science. 2006;314:791–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Klir GJ. Uncertainty and Information. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Cockell CS, editor. The Meaning of Liberty Beyond Earth. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kozioł A. E-mail, Facebook, and Mobile Phones as Essential Tools for Lower Secondary School Students’ Communication. In: Piasecka L, Adams-Tukiendorf M, Wilk P, editors. New Media and Perennial Problems in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 73–90.

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. Wally The Whale’s Carcass Keeps Washing Up On California Beaches [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wally-the-whale-s-carcass-keeps-washing-up-on-california-beaches/

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. Intercollegiate Athletics: Recent Trends in Teams and Participants in National Collegiate Athletic Association Sports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Jul. Report No.: GAO-07-535.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sylvain O. Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927 [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia 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. Wagner J. Alone Among Starters: Healthy and Dominant. New York Times. 2017 Jul 25;B11.

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