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. Macneil JS. ECOLOGY: Forest Fire Plan Kindles Debate. Science. 2000;289:1448b–9b.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dutcher JR, Ediger MD. Materials science. Glass surfaces not so glassy. Science. 2008;319:577–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Palenzuela C, Lehner L, Liebling SL. Dual jets from binary black holes. Science. 2010;329:927–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chen J-G, Willard FS, Huang J, Liang J, Chasse SA, Jones AM, et al. A seven-transmembrane RGS protein that modulates plant cell proliferation. Science. 2003;301:1728–31.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Šolín P. Partial Differential Equations and the Finite Element Method. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Al Najjar M. Video Surveillance for Sensor Platforms: Algorithms and Architectures. Ghantous M, Bayoumi M, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Napier J, Riazi M, Jacenyik-Trawoger C. Leadership: A Cultural Perspective on Review as Quality Assurance Versus Quality Enhancement. In: Sachs J, Parsell M, editors. Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: International Perspectives. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 53–66.

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. Davis J. Scientists Reconstruct Most Detailed Life History Of Any Dinosaur Known So Far [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-reconstruct-most-detailed-life-history-any-dinosaur-known-so-far/

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. Traffic Congestion: Activities to Reduce Travel Demand and Air Pollution Are Not Widely Implemented. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Nov. Report No.: PEMD-93-2.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mishne J. An investigation of the relationships between technology use and teachers’ self-efficacy, knowledge and experience [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2012.

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. Gorman J. Donkeys: The Facts. New York Times. 2016 Oct 31;D3.

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