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. Crocker JC. Materials science. Turning away from high symmetry. Science. 2010;327:535–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Green MA, Fry SC. Vitamin C degradation in plant cells via enzymatic hydrolysis of 4-O-oxalyl-L-threonate. Nature. 2005;433:83–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Fedorov AV, Brierley CM, Emanuel K. Tropical cyclones and permanent El Niño in the early Pliocene epoch. Nature. 2010;463:1066–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Borzi RA, Grigera SA, Farrell J, Perry RS, Lister SJS, Lee SL, et al. Formation of a nematic fluid at high fields in Sr3Ru2O7. Science. 2007;315:214–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sewell G. The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Montón-Subías S, Cruz Berrocal M, Ruiz Martínez A, editors. Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Damle A, Maykel JA. Perioperative Considerations. In: Ross H, Lee S, Champagne BJ, Pigazzi A, Rivadeneira DE, editors. Robotic Approaches to Colorectal Surgery. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 45–55.

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. Administering Oxytocin Increases Social Behaviors In Infant Macaques. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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 Infrastructure: Urban Transportation Planning Can Better Address Modal Trade-offs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Apr. Report No.: RCED-92-112.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Thiss PJ. Effects of dedicated academic support services on the persistence rates of California Community College student-athletes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2009.

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. Branch J. Ready to Jump In If Needed (Not Likely). New York Times. 2016 Aug 5;D1.

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