How to format your references using the Europace citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Europace. 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

Stevenson DJ. A planetary perspective on the deep Earth. Nature 2008;451:261–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mbadugha CA, Onakoya AO. The awareness, perceptions and experiences of primary open angle glaucoma patients in Lagos Nigeria. Sci Rep 2014;4:7585.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao Y, Samal E, Srivastava D. Serum response factor regulates a muscle-specific microRNA that targets Hand2 during cardiogenesis. Nature 2005;436:214–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Montrose K, Yang Y, Sun X, Wiles S, Krissansen GW. Xentry, a new class of cell-penetrating peptide uniquely equipped for delivery of drugs. Sci Rep 2013;3:1661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chassaing R. Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the C6713 and C6416 DSK. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Conn PM, ed. Sourcebook of Models for Biomedical Research. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Taxman FS, Pattavina A, Caudy MS, Byrne J, Durso J. The Empirical Basis for the RNR Model with an Updated RNR Conceptual Framework. In: Taxman FS, Pattavina A, eds. Simulation Strategies to Reduce Recidivism: Risk Need Responsivity (RNR) Modeling for the Criminal Justice System New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 73–111.

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 Europace.

Blog post

Luntz S. Solar Flare Filmed in Exquisite Detail. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-flare-filmed-exquisite-detail/ (30 October 2018)

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. Centralized Subsystem for Paying Officers in the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 May. Report No.: FGMSD-77-23.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jin R. Graph-Based Rhythm Interpretation in Optical Music Recognition [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana 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

Vecsey G. Developing the Next Messi. New York Times 2010;B16.

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	Europace
Abbreviation	Europace
ISSN (print)	1099-5129
ISSN (online)	1532-2092
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)