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

Smaglik P. Taking stock of biotech jobs. Nature 2002; 417: 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schultz PG, Lerner RA. Completing the circle. Nature 2002; 418: 485.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brennan MD, Cheong R, Levchenko A. Systems biology. How information theory handles cell signaling and uncertainty. Science 2012; 338: 334–335.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen YP, Liu Q, Liu YJ, et al. Responses of soil microbial activity to cadmium pollution and elevated CO2. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hagen J. Chemiereaktoren. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2004.

An edited book

Ruggeri T. Rational Extended Thermodynamics beyond the Monatomic Gas. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Park J-W. rTMS in Dysphagia After Stroke. In: Platz T (ed) Therapeutic rTMS in Neurology: Principles, Evidence, and Practice Recommendations. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 63–71.

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. Marine Ecosystems Took 3 Million Years To Recover After The Great Dying. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/marine-reptiles-recovered-quickly-after-the-great-dying/ (2016, 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. Success of the Programed School Input Program Justifies Expansion. FPCD-82-53, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 16 September 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson L. The Relationship between Mock Jurors’ Locus of Control, Belief in a Just World, and an NGRI Verdict. Doctoral Dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Billard M. Baubles And Bags To Customize. New York Times, 16 September 2010, p. E7.

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