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. Fei Y. Geophysics. Melting Earth’s core. Science. 2013;340:442–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Goldsby DL, Tullis TE. Flash heating leads to low frictional strength of crustal rocks at earthquake slip rates. Science. 2011;334:216–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nateri AS, Spencer-Dene B, Behrens A. Interaction of phosphorylated c-Jun with TCF4 regulates intestinal cancer development. Nature. 2005;437:281–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lin H, Li L, Ren J, Cai Z, Qiu L, Yang Z, et al. Conducting polymer composite film incorporated with aligned carbon nanotubes for transparent, flexible and efficient supercapacitor. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1353.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bates J, Gallon C, Bocci M, Walker S, Taylor T. Converged Multimedia Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Ayuso Muñoz JL, Yagüe Blanco JL, Capuz-Rizo SF, editors. Project Management and Engineering Research, 2014: Selected Papers from the 18th International AEIPRO Congress held in Alcañiz, Spain, in 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Li SE, Deng K. Recent Advances in Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control Method. In: Liu L, Zhu Q, Cheng L, Wang Y, Zhao D, editors. Applied Methods and Techniques for Mechatronic Systems: Modelling, Identification and Control. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 79–97.

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. Why We Need A Legal Definition Of Artificial Intelligence [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-we-need-legal-definition-artificial-intelligence/

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. FAA Encountering Problems in Acquiring Major Automated Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Apr. Report No.: T-IMTEC-90-6.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. De la Rosa-Carrillo EL. On the language of Internet Memes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2015.

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. Wasik JF. How to Get Financial Advice in Your Best Interest. New York Times. 2017 Jan 13;BU6.

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