How to format your references using the Current Problems in Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Problems in Cardiology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Sodeoka M. Chemistry. Efficient fluorination of organic molecules with chiral anions. Science. 2011;334(6063):1651-1652.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shizgal P, Arvanitogiannis A. Neuroscience. Gambling on dopamine. Science. 2003;299(5614):1856-1858.

A journal article with 3 authors

McDonald JJ, Teder-Sälejärvi WA, Ward LM. Multisensory integration and crossmodal attention effects in the human brain. Science. 2001;292(5523):1791.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dimiduk DM, Woodward C, Lesar R, Uchic MD. Scale-free intermittent flow in crystal plasticity. Science. 2006;312(5777):1188-1190.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacClancy J. Anthropology in the Public Arena. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Kamat RK. Unleash the System On Chip Using FPGAs and Handel C. (Shinde SA, Shelake VG, eds.). Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Sutanto T, Nayak R. The Ranking Based Constrained Document Clustering Method and Its Application to Social Event Detection. In: Bhowmick SS, Dyreson CE, Jensen CS, Lee ML, Muliantara A, Thalheim B, eds. Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 19th International Conference, DASFAA 2014, Bali, Indonesia, April 21-24, 2014. Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2014:47-60.

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 Problems in Cardiology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. This NASA Drone Could Fly Across The Surface Of Mars. IFLScience. April 3, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-nasa-drone-could-fly-across-the-surface-of-mars/

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

Government Accountability Office. A Judgmental Call: Measuring the Safety of the Airlines. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fountain JM. Differences in Generational Work Values in America and Their Implications for Educational Leadership: A Longitudinal Test of Twenge’s Model. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 2014.

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

Feeney K. That General-Store Feeling. New York Times. December 26, 2010:NJ14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Problems in Cardiology
Abbreviation	Curr. Probl. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0146-2806
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine