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. Walmsley IA. Looking to the future of quantum optics. Science. 2008;319:1211–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Biju SD, Bossuyt F. New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles. Nature. 2003;425:711–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sharp DJ, Rogers GC, Scholey JM. Microtubule motors in mitosis. Nature. 2000;407:41–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hatsugai N, Kuroyanagi M, Yamada K, Meshi T, Tsuda S, Kondo M, et al. A plant vacuolar protease, VPE, mediates virus-induced hypersensitive cell death. Science. 2004;305:855–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Paladino B. Corporate Performance Management Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Vinhas de Souza L, Havrylyshyn O, editors. Return to Growth in CIS Countries: Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Framework. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. De Mulder EFJ, Van Ree CCDF, Wang K. Underground Urban Development: An Overview. In: Lollino G, Manconi A, Guzzetti F, Culshaw M, Bobrowsky P, Luino F, editors. Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5: Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 25–9.

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. Davis J. Blood Test Could Detect Traumatic Brain Injury [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/blood-test-could-detect-traumatic-brain-injury/

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. [Comments on Claim for Additional Charges on FAA Shipment]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 May. Report No.: B-259720.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Johnson L. The Relationship between Mock Jurors’ Locus of Control, Belief in a Just World, and an NGRI Verdict [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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. Kelly D. IN SHORT: FICTION. New York Times. 1995 Aug 6;720.

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