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. Davis ME. Materials science. Distinguishing the (almost) indistinguishable. Science. 2003;300:438–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hong S, Asai T. Effect of panel shape of soccer ball on its flight characteristics. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5068.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kicheva A, Cohen M, Briscoe J. Developmental pattern formation: insights from physics and biology. Science. 2012;338:210–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yu H, Kelly OD, Cros V, Bernard R, Bortolotti P, Anane A, et al. Magnetic thin-film insulator with ultra-low spin wave damping for coherent nanomagnonics. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6848.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kracke E-A, Lodde K. Leitfaden Straßenbrücken. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

1. Azevedo F, Barahona P, Fages F, Rossi F, editors. Recent Advances in Constraints: 11th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Contraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2006, Caparica, Portugal, June 26-28, 2006, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Scuderi E, Parrinello RE, Izal D, Perrucci GP, Fitzek FHP, Palazzo S, et al. A Mobile Platform for Measurements in Dynamic Topology Wireless Networks. In: Giusto D, Iera A, Morabito G, Atzori L, editors. The Internet of Things: 20th Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 49–57.

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. How Ancient Warm Periods Can Help Predict Future Climate Change [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-ancient-warm-periods-can-help-predict-future-climate-change/

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: FCC’s Use and Enforcement of Buildout Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Feb. Report No.: GAO-14-236.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gunther A. The Effects of Writing Task Choice on Behavioral and Academic Outcomes of Students with ADHD [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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. Savage C, Sullivan E. Sessions Widens Official Inquiry On Media Leaks. New York Times. 2017 Aug 4;A1.

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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