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. Greider CW. Molecular biology. Wnt regulates TERT--putting the horse before the cart. Science. 2012;336:1519–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Garcia V, Bibes M. Electronics: inside story of ferroelectric memories. Nature. 2012;483:279–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cohn A, Fehr E, Maréchal MA. Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry. Nature. 2014;516:86–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Robertson ID, Yourdkhani M, Centellas PJ, Aw JE, Ivanoff DG, Goli E, et al. Rapid energy-efficient manufacturing of polymers and composites via frontal polymerization. Nature. 2018;557:223–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kelsey JE, Newport DJ, Nemeroff CB. Principles of Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Professionals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Sneve MK, Kiselev MF, editors. Challenges in Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Regulation of the Nuclear Legacy. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fang AC, Cao J. Part-of-Speech Tags and ICE Text Classification. In: Cao J, editor. Text Genres and Registers: The Computation of Linguistic Features. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 71–82.

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. Luntz S. Bacterial Colonies Alternate Feeding Times To Survive Bad Times [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/bacterial-colonies-alternate-feeding-times-to-survive-bad-times/

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. Maritime Industry: Federal Assessments Levied on Commercial Vessels. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Mar. Report No.: RCED-93-65FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Brecese JA. Out of Our Depth: Hyper-Extensionality and the Return of Three-Dimensional Media [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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. Wagner J. Syndergaard Has to Take Mets’ Offer. New York Times. 2017 Mar 4;D5.

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

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