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

Check E. Abbott’s AIDS fight-back. Nature 2007;448:14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ringler P, Schulz GE. Self-assembly of proteins into designed networks. Science 2003;302:106–109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kühlbrandt W, Zeelen J, Dietrich J. Structure, mechanism, and regulation of the Neurospora plasma membrane H+-ATPase. Science 2002;297:1692–1696.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

Giraudo CG, Eng WS, Melia TJ, Rothman JE. A clamping mechanism involved in SNARE-dependent exocytosis. Science 2006;313:676–680.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin W. Reservoir Engineering in Modern Oilfields. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Perales FJ, Fisher RB, eds. Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 6th International Conference, AMDO 2010, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 7-9, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Ebert C, Dumke R. Planning the Measurement Process. In: Dumke R, ed. Software Measurement: Establish — Extract — Evaluate — Execute. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p73–90.

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

Andrew E. How To Get Off The Couch And Into Exercise. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/health-check-how-get-couch-and-exercise/ (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. High-Speed Ground Transport: Acquiring Rights-of-Way for Maglev Systems Requires a Flexible Approach

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Packman T. The Effects of Eccentricity on Rectangular Hollow Structural Section Stress in Moment Connections Loaded Out-of-Plane

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

Crow K. For Aching Knees, a Longer Walk May Be in Store. 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