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. Mira-Perez J. Spanish university study ignores research. Nature. 2000;404:222.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Douglas T, Young M. Viruses: making friends with old foes. Science. 2006;312:873–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Conway SL, Shinbrot T, Glasser BJ. A Taylor vortex analogy in granular flows. Nature. 2004;431:433–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yamamoto K, Gildenberg M, Ahuja S, Im S-C, Pearcy P, Waskell L, et al. Probing the transmembrane structure and topology of microsomal cytochrome-p450 by solid-state NMR on temperature-resistant bicelles. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shaw MT. Introduction to Polymer Rheology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Metwally M, Li T-C, editors. Reproductive Surgery in Assisted Conception. London: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pinsent A. Aquinas and the Second Person in the Formation of Virtues. In: Mooney TB, Nowacki M, editors. Aquinas, Education and the East. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 47–71.

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. Carpineti A. Scientists Have Listed The Most Earth-like Planets Seen By Kepler [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-have-listed-the-most-earthlike-planets-seen-by-kepler/

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. Surface Transportation: Federal and State Efforts to Support Declining Intercity Bus Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED-93-16.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kino MY. My Concierge MD, Inc. a business plan [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Hollander S. On the Street of Superlatives. New York Times. 2009 May 10;CY5.

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