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. Powell K. The data busters. Nature. 2003;421:970–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tamaru H, Selker EU. A histone H3 methyltransferase controls DNA methylation in Neurospora crassa. Nature. 2001;414:277–83.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sanders TA, Llagostera E, Barna M. Specialized filopodia direct long-range transport of SHH during vertebrate tissue patterning. Nature. 2013;497:628–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Parker SCJ, Hansen L, Abaan HO, Tullius TD, Margulies EH. Local DNA topography correlates with functional noncoding regions of the human genome. Science. 2009;324:389–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Feyel P. Loop-shaping Robust Control. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Burleson W, Carrara S, editors. Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Baxley TP, Boston GH. Journey to the Center. In: Boston GH, editor. (In)visible Presence: Feminist Counter-Narratives of Young Adult Literature by Women of Color. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014. p. 65–81.

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. Luntz S. Droppings Reveal That Not All Tasmanian Devils Are Clones [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/not-devil-we-know-droppings-reveal-tasmanian-devil-diversity/

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. Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Is Working to Ensure Continuity but Needs to Quickly Address Information Security Weaknesses and Future Program Uncertainties. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 May. Report No.: GAO-16-359.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Coulibaly I. Influence of Gender and Age on the Performance of a PBIS program: Quantitative Analysis of Secondary Data from a Midwestern Suburban Public Middle School [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood 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. Poniewozik J. Big Ideas and Short-Term Stays. New York Times. 2017 Jul 26;C6.

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