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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Cardiology 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Gershon D. Vaccine centres unite specialists in the battle against infectious diseases. Nature. 2000;408:753–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Loring JF, Campbell C. Science and law. Intellectual property and human embryonic stem cell research. Science. 2006;311:1716–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wu B, Parquette JR, RajanBabu TV. Regiodivergent ring opening of chiral aziridines. Science. 2009;326:1662.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Deng XL, Takami T, Son JW, Kang EJ, Kawai T, Park BH. Effect of concentration gradient on ionic current rectification in polyethyleneimine modified glass nano-pipettes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Chu PP. Embedded SoPC Design with Nios II Processor and VHDL Examples. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Meersman R, Dillon T, Herrero P, Kumar A, Reichert M, Qing L, et al., editors. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-SVI, and ODBASE 2011, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, October 17-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sebastiani R, Corsaro D, Montagnini F, Tzannis A. Sustainability in the Supply Chain: The Retailers’ Perspective. In: Campbell CL, editor. Marketing in Transition: Scarcity, Globalism, & Sustainability: Proceedings of the 2009 World Marketing Congress. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 8–12.

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 Cardiology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Why Is It So Cold In Here? Setting The Office Thermostat Right – For Both Sexes [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-it-so-cold-here-setting-office-thermostat-right-both-sexes/

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. Highways: Acquiring Land for Federal-Aid Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Mar. Report No.: RCED-88-112.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Van Gilder BJ. American students’ communication abroad: Factors promoting and inhibiting interactions with host nationals [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. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Cooperation, Of Sorts, From Georgia. New York Times. 2002 Sep 7;A4.

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 Cardiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Cardiol. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1523-3782
ISSN (online)	1534-3170
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine