How to format your references using the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology citation style

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

Yang S. Self-assembled materials. Supramolecular lattices from tetrahedral nanobuilding blocks. Science 2015; 348: 396–397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chyba CF, Hand KP. Planetary science. Life without photosynthesis. Science 2001; 292: 2026–2027.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu J, Gong P, Zhou X. The association between romantic relationship status and 5-HT1A gene in young adults. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 7049.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stuber GD, Sparta DR, Stamatakis AM, et al. Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking. Nature 2011; 475: 377–380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stavetski EJ. Managing Hedge Fund Managers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

Imani J. Plant Cell and Tissue Culture - A Tool in Biotechnology: Basics and Application. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilson RJ, Miner MH. Measurement of Male Sexual Arousal and Interest Using Penile Plethysmography and Viewing Time. In: Laws DR, O’Donohue W (eds) Treatment of Sex Offenders: Strengths and Weaknesses in Assessment and Intervention. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 107–131.

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 Preventive Cardiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. What Human Emotions Do We Really Want Of Artificial Intelligence? IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/what-human-emotions-do-we-really-want-artificial-intelligence/ (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. Federal Research: Opportunities Exist to Improve the Management and Oversight of Federally Funded Research and Development Centers. GAO-09-15, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 8 October 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cardillo-Geller L. Renegotiating relationships, patterns of grief and experiences of support: An examination of mothers’ relationships with their daughters following daughters’ loss of a husband in the September 11 th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University, 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

Johnson G. After 1.7 Million Years, a Bone Cancer Diagnosis. New York Times, 23 August 2016, p. D3.

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 Preventive Cardiology
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Prev. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	2047-4873
ISSN (online)	2047-4881
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Epidemiology