How to format your references using the European Heart Journal citation style

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

Ommen T van. Palaeoclimate: Northern push for the bipolar see-saw. Nature 2015;520:630–631.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krishnaswamy VR, Korrapati PS. Role of dermatopontin in re-epithelialization: implications on keratinocyte migration and proliferation. Sci Rep 2014;4:7385.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore SD, McGinness KE, Sauer RT. Structural biology. A glimpse into tmRNA-mediated ribosome rescue. Science 2003;300:72–73.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang Z, Liu CT, Miller MK, Wang X-L, Wen Y, Fujita T, Hirata A, Chen M, Chen G, Chin BA. A nanoscale co-precipitation approach for property enhancement of Fe-base alloys. Sci Rep 2013;3:1327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eisner H. Managing Complex Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Zarate CA Jr, Manji HK, eds. Bipolar Depression: Molecular Neurobiology, Clinical Diagnosis, and Pharmacotherapy. 2nd ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Chimphango SBM, Belane A, Naab JB, Tanzubil PB, Asiwe JAN, Ndakidemi PA, Heerden RPD van, Dakora FD. Multi-Factor Approach to Identifying Cowpea Genotypes with Superior Symbiotic Traits and Higher Yield for Africa. In: Dakora FD, Chimphango SBM, Valentine AJ, Elmerich C, Newton WE, eds. Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture: Proceedings of the 15th International Nitrogen Fixation Congress and the 12th International Conference of the African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p23–24.

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.

Blog post

Fang J. Daddy Longlegs Make Glue to Trap Springy Prey. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/daddy-longlegs-make-glue-trap-jumpy-prey/ (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. Commercial Space Transportation: Development of the Commercial Space Launch Industry Presents Safety Oversight Challenges for FAA and Raises Issues Affecting Federal Roles

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sever RS. A Quantitative Descriptive Study Using the Theoretical Domains Framework to Investigate and Compare the Psychotropic Medication Prescribing Behavior of Primary Care Prescribers

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

Rice SE. To Be Great, America Must Be Good. New York Times.

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
Abbreviation	Eur. Heart J.
ISSN (print)	0195-668x
ISSN (online)	1522-9645
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine