How to format your references using the Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Cardiovascular Imaging 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. Armitage PJ. Astronomy. Stars in the making. Science. 2008;321:1047–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jung H, Karato S. Water-induced fabric transitions in olivine. Science. 2001;293:1460–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Huang J, Pray C, Rozelle S. Enhancing the crops to feed the poor. Nature. 2002;418:678–84.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Feinerman O, Veiga J, Dorfman JR, Germain RN, Altan-Bonnet G. Variability and robustness in T cell activation from regulated heterogeneity in protein levels. Science. 2008;321:1081–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Tms. Engineering Solutions for Sustainability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Felsenstein D, Portnov BA, editors. Regional Disparities in Small Countries. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chu M, Li Y, Zou X, Soong F. Enrich Web Applications with Voice Internet Persona Text-to-Speech for Anyone, Anywhere. In: Jacko JA, editor. Human-Computer Interaction HCI Intelligent Multimodal Interaction Environments: 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part III. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 40–9.

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 Cardiovascular Imaging Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. How To Teach All Students To Think Critically [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-teach-all-students-think-critically/

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. Race to the Top: Survey of School Districts’ Capacity to Implement Reform (GAO-15-317SP, April 2015), an E-supplement to GAO-15-295. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Apr. Report No.: GAO-15-317SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Panteleyeva NB. Statistical methods of latent structure discovery in child-directed speech [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2010.

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. Cooper M, Southall A. A Subway Rescue by a Ballet Dancer. New York Times. 2017 Jun 4;A20.

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 Cardiovascular Imaging Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Cardiovasc. Imaging Rep.
ISSN (print)	1941-9066
ISSN (online)	1941-9074
Scope	Cell Biology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Histology