How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine. 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. Asphaug E. Planetary science. Nothing simple about asteroids. Science. 2004;306:1489–92.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lodish H, Fedoroff N. Retrospective. Norton Zinder (1928-2012). Science. 2012;335:1316.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dvorak M, Oswald W, Wu Z. Bandgap opening by patterning graphene. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2289.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Spoor F, Bajpai S, Hussain ST, Kumar K, Thewissen JGM. Vestibular evidence for the evolution of aquatic behaviour in early cetaceans. Nature. 2002;417:163–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Massad JJ, Cagna DR, Goodacre CJ, Wicks RA, Ahuja SA. Application of the Neutral Zone in Prosthodontics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Rinderle-Ma S, Sadiq S, Leymann F, editors. Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2009 International Workshops, Ulm, Germany, September 7, 2009. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. van Velzen C, Bezzina C, Lorist P. Partnerships Between Schools and Teacher Education Institutes. In: Swennen A, Klink M van der, editors. Becoming a Teacher Educator: Theory and Practice for Teacher Educators. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 59–73.

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 Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Scientists Take Step Forward In Quest To Convert Carbon Dioxide To Biofuel [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-take-step-forward-quest-convert-carbon-dioxide-biofuel/

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. Information Technology: U.S. Postal Service Needs to Strengthen System Acquisition and Management Capabilities to Improve Its Intelligent Mail Full Service Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Oct. Report No.: GAO-10-145.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bigelow RW. Perception of Online Legal Education among Recently Retired Law School Faculty [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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. Qiu L. Lessons and Interpretations on the Court Nomination Process. New York Times. 2017 Apr 3;A13.

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 Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine
Abbreviation	Curr. Treat. Options Cardiovasc. Med.
ISSN (print)	1092-8464
ISSN (online)	1534-3189
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine