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

Powell K. The data busters. Nature 2003;421:970–973.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joly P-B, Rip A. A timely harvest. Nature 2007;450:174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schoemaker HE, Mink D, Wubbolts MG. Dispelling the myths--biocatalysis in industrial synthesis. Science 2003;299:1694–1697.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

Realini N, Solorzano C, Pagliuca C, Pizzirani D, Armirotti A, Luciani R, Costi MP, Bandiera T, Piomelli D. Discovery of highly potent acid ceramidase inhibitors with in vitro tumor chemosensitizing activity. Sci Rep 2013;3:1035.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yan W. Crop Variety Trials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Loue S, ed. Health Issues Confronting Minority Men Who Have Sex with Men. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Lant CL, Lawson MJ. Interactive Whiteboard Use and Student Engagement. In: Orrell J, Curtis DD, eds. Publishing Higher Degree Research: Making the Transition from Student to Researcher. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016. p33–42.

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. Antifreeze from Ticks Offer Frostbite Protection for Mice. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antifreeze-ticks-offer-frostbite-protection-mice/ (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. NASA Procurement: Challenges Remain in Implementing Improvement Reforms

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Madapatha SA. Energy efficient hierarchical wireless routing protocol (EEHW routing protocol)

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

Prochnik G. He Remade Kings. 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

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