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

Savage N. Resources: Mine, all mine! Nature 2013; 495: S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weir JT, Schluter D. The latitudinal gradient in recent speciation and extinction rates of birds and mammals. Science 2007; 315: 1574–1576.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song J, Ji C, Zhang JZH. Unveiling the gating mechanism of ECF transporter RibU. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3566.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shaevitz JW, Abbondanzieri EA, Landick R, et al. Backtracking by single RNA polymerase molecules observed at near-base-pair resolution. Nature 2003; 426: 684–687.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips JJ, Brantley W, Phillips PP. Project Management ROI. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Khey DN. Emerging Trends in Drug Use and Distribution. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Fredriksson-Ahomaa M. Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. In: Simjee S (ed) Foodborne Diseases. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2007, pp. 79–113.

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

Davis J. Researchers Eavesdrop On Arctic Whales To Learn Their Movements. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-eavesdrop-arctic-whales-learn-their-movements/ (2015, 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. NCAA Student Athlete Pell Grants. OSI-95-13R, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 10 January 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson KC. Teacher and parent perceptions of classroom experiences of African American male students in a high school alternative program. Doctoral Dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2013.

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

Shear MD, Plumer B. Trump Has Choice to Make Between Science and His Base. New York Times, 9 August 2017, p. A14.

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

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