How to format your references using the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing citation style

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

Sanderson K. King coal constrained. Nature 2007; 449: 14–15.

A journal article with 2 authors

Olivera BM, Teichert RW. Neuroscience: chemical ecology of pain. Nature 2011; 479: 306–307.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortin PD, Walsh CT, Magarvey NA. A transglutaminase homologue as a condensation catalyst in antibiotic assembly lines. Nature 2007; 448: 824–827.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sales BC, Saparov B, McGuire MA, et al. Ferromagnetism of Fe3Sn and alloys. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 7024.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Onstott S. AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT® Essentials. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

Jackson AC (ed). Viral Infections of the Human Nervous System. Basel: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Paré A. Speaking of Writing: Supervisory Feedback and the Dissertation. In: McAlpine L, Amundsen C (eds) Doctoral Education: Research-Based Strategies for Doctoral Students, Supervisors and Administrators. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011, pp. 59–74.

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 Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Blog post

Andrew E. MAVEN Spacecraft Takes First Deep Dip. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/maven-spacecraft-takes-first-deep-dip/ (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. Space Shuttle: Readiness of the Transoceanic Abort Landing Sites. NSIAD-89-22, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 16 December 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Selis AH. Holding the center: How one Jewish day school negotiates differences in a pluralistic community. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

Sisario B. Stoking Classic Rock Hunger With Concerts on the Coasts. New York Times, 29 March 2017, p. C4.

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 Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Cardiovasc. Nurs.
ISSN (print)	1474-5151
ISSN (online)	1873-1953
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Advanced and Specialised Nursing Medical–Surgical