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. Brumfiel G. Antihydrogen: holding up a mirror to physics’ world view. Nature. 2002;420:731.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Archer D, Martin P. Ocean circulation. Thin walls tell the tale. Science. 2001;294:2108–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. O’Connor J, Zheng X, Zhou Z. Zheng et al. reply. Nature. 2013;499:E1-2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ng CK, Carr K, McAinsh MR, Powell B, Hetherington AM. Drought-induced guard cell signal transduction involves sphingosine-1-phosphate. Nature. 2001;410:596–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ribéreau-Gayon P, Dubourdieu D, Donèche B, Lonvaud A. Handbook of Enology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Schmidt C, Schneider J, editors. Diversifying the Teaching Force in Transnational Contexts: Critical Perspectives. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Martinez-Frias J, Amaral G, Vázquez L. Astrobiological significance of minerals on Mars surface environment. In: Amils R, Ellis-Evans C, Hinghofer-Szalkay H, editors. Life in Extreme Environments. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007. p. 55–67.

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. Watch What Happens When Chimpanzees See Their Reflection In A Mirror [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/all-these-chimpanzees-need-are-mirrors-get-party-started/

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. Higher Education: Gaps in Parents’ and Students’ Knowledge of School Costs and Federal Aid. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jul. Report No.: PEMD-90-20BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cao L. Mathematical Modeling of Long-Term Productivity of Hydraulic- and HEG- Fractured Wells in Ultra-Low Permeability Reservoirs [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Quain JR. A Turning Point For Plug-In Hybrids. New York Times. 2017 May 4;B4.

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