How to format your references using the European Heart Journal - Acute Cardiovascular Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Heart Journal - Acute Cardiovascular Care. 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

Coontz R. Mysteries of astronomy. Science 2012; 336: 1090.

A journal article with 2 authors

Remondes M, Schuman EM. Direct cortical input modulates plasticity and spiking in CA1 pyramidal neurons. Nature 2002; 416: 736–740.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim AM, Tingen CM, Woodruff TK. Sex bias in trials and treatment must end. Nature 2010; 465: 688–689.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Otomo T, Tomchick DR, Otomo C, et al. Structural basis of actin filament nucleation and processive capping by a formin homology 2 domain. Nature 2005; 433: 488–494.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prutchi D, Prutchi SR. Exploring Quantum Physics Through Hands-On Projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

Eckold G, Schober H, Nagler SE (eds). Studying Kinetics with Neutrons: Prospects for Time-Resolved Neutron Scattering. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Joshi RR. Statistical Mining of Gene and Protein Databanks. In: Fulekar MH (ed) Bioinformatics: Applications in Life and Environmental Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009, pp. 34–43.

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 European Heart Journal - Acute Cardiovascular Care.

Blog post

Fang J. In Quantum Breakthrough, Scientists Get Two Photons To Interact. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/quantum-breakthrough-scientists-get-two-photons-interact/ (2014, accessed 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. Air Traffic Control: Ineffective Management Plagues $1.7-Billion Radar Program. IMTEC-90-37, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 31 May 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clendening RJ. A structured methodology for unifying functional analysis with systems analysis to enhance system behavior knowledge. Doctoral Dissertation, George Washington 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

Otis J. Young Immigrant Seizes a Culinary Opportunity. New York Times, 7 December 2016, p. A27.

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	European Heart Journal - Acute Cardiovascular Care
Abbreviation	Eur. Heart J. Acute Cardiovasc. Care
ISSN (print)	2048-8726
ISSN (online)	2048-8734
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine