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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Cardiovascular Risk 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. Brooks BA. Geophysics. Seeing is believing. Science. 2012;338:207–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Prather MJ, Hsu J. Coupling of nitrous oxide and methane by global atmospheric chemistry. Science. 2010;330:952–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mulch A, Graham SA, Chamberlain CP. Hydrogen isotopes in Eocene river gravels and paleoelevation of the Sierra Nevada. Science. 2006;313:87–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Knoch D, Pascual-Leone A, Meyer K, Treyer V, Fehr E. Diminishing reciprocal fairness by disrupting the right prefrontal cortex. Science. 2006;314:829–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bliesner DM. Establishing a CGMP Laboratory Audit System. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Jajodia S, Mazumdar C, editors. Information Systems Security: First International Conference, ICISS 2005, Kolkata, India, December 19-21, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bombile M. Visual Servoing Based Positioning and Object Tracking on Humanoid Robot. In: Elleithy K, Sobh T, editors. New Trends in Networking, Computing, E-learning, Systems Sciences, and Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 19–27.

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 Risk Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. The Biggest Sticking Point In Paris Climate Talks: Money [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/biggest-sticking-point-paris-climate-talks-money/

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. Federal Bureau of Investigation: Actions Taken to Address Most Procurement Recommendations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Sep. Report No.: GAO-11-794.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sefrit J. A study of the effectiveness of a school district’s mentoring /professional development plan for beginning teachers [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2008.

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. Protess B, Kramer AE, McINTIRE M. Bank in Kushner Meeting Wields Power for Kremlin. New York Times. 2017 Jun 5;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 Cardiovascular Risk Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Cardiovasc. Risk Rep.
ISSN (print)	1932-9520
ISSN (online)	1932-9563
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology