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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Ohlsson R. Genetics. Widespread monoallelic expression. Science. 2007;318:1077–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ley TJ, Hamilton BH. Sociology. The gender gap in NIH grant applications. Science. 2008;322:1472–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hanash SM, Pitteri SJ, Faca VM. Mining the plasma proteome for cancer biomarkers. Nature. 2008;452:571–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Krause O, Tanaka M, Usuda T, Hattori T, Goto M, Birkmann S, et al. Tycho Brahe’s 1572 supernova as a standard type Ia as revealed by its light-echo spectrum. Nature. 2008;456:617–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cooney N. How to Be Great at Doing Good. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Demir H, editor. Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Technology: Critical Reflections. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Delgado A, Calegari D. Changing the Focus of an Organization: From Information Systems to Process Aware Information Systems. In: Gaaloul K, Schmidt R, Nurcan S, Guerreiro S, Ma Q, editors. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 16th International Conference, BPMDS 2015, 20th International Conference, EMMSAD 2015, Held at CAiSE 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, June 8-9, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 53–67.

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. Taub B. Something Weird Happens When You Give Cocaine To Fish [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/something-weird-happens-give-cocaine-fish/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Spectrum Management: Federal Relocation Costs and Auction Revenues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 May. Report No.: GAO-13-472.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Eldanaf RG. Angry Cherub [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Neuman W. In Colombia, an Election May Turn on a Dirty War. New York Times. 2014 May 16;A12.

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