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. Heine V V. Crystal structure. As weird as they come. Nature. 2000;403:836–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sheng M, Kim MJ. Postsynaptic signaling and plasticity mechanisms. Science. 2002;298:776–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ebel C, Mariconti L, Gruissem W. Plant retinoblastoma homologues control nuclear proliferation in the female gametophyte. Nature. 2004;429:776–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Summerscales OT, Cloke FGN, Hitchcock PB, Green JC, Hazari N. Reductive cyclotrimerization of carbon monoxide to the deltate dianion by an organometallic uranium complex. Science. 2006;311:829–31.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ferdjallah M. Introduction to Digital Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Nyberg K, editor. Topics in Cryptology –- CT-RSA 2015: The Cryptographer’s Track at the RSA Conference 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 20-24, 2015. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Herrera F, Ventura S, Bello R, Cornelis C, Zafra A, Sánchez-Tarragó D, et al. Instance-Based Classification Methods. In: Ventura S, Bello R, Cornelis C, Zafra A, Sánchez-Tarragó D, Vluymans S, editors. Multiple Instance Learning: Foundations and Algorithms. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 67–98.

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. Fang J. Underwater DNA Reveals that Wheat Arrived 2,000 Years Before Agriculture in Britain. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Airport Finance: Past Funding Levels May Not Be Sufficient to Cover Airports’ Planned Capital Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Feb. Report No.: GAO-03-497T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Schreiber JS. Discursive constructions of decline: Narratives of illness and financial stress among residents in assisted living [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2016.

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. Bilefsky D. Royal Retirement at 95 Halts Frenzied Rumors. New York Times. 2017 May 4;A10.

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

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