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. Podolak M. Planetary science. The case of Saturn’s spin. Science. 2007;317:1330–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Murphy JJ, Melchiorre P. Organic chemistry: Light opens pathways for nickel catalysis. Nature. 2015;524:297–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cubitt TS, Perez-Garcia D, Wolf MM. Undecidability of the spectral gap. Nature. 2015;528:207–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lawton RO, Nair US, Pielke Sr RA, Welch RM. Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests. Science. 2001;294:584–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Minoli D. IP Multicast with Applications to IPTV and Mobile DVB-H. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

1. Carena MJ, editor. Cereals. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wilcox AB. Leveraging Electronic Health Records for Phenotyping. In: Payne PRO, Embi PJ, editors. Translational Informatics: Realizing the Promise of Knowledge-Driven Healthcare. London: Springer; 2015. p. 61–74.

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. Tesla May Release Patents To Encourage Supercharger Collaborators [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/tesla-may-release-patents-encourage-supercharger-collaborators/

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. Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Sep. Report No.: AA-96-18(4).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Thomas Hurford CE. “In his arm the scar”: Medicine, race, and the social implications of the 1721 inoculation controversy on Boston [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State 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. Hollander S. Rutgers Women Find Rhythm For 4th Straight Victory. New York Times. 1999 Dec 31;D5.

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