How to format your references using the Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy. 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

[1]

Farr NL. Questioning placebo controls. Science. 2000;288(5472):1747c.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Modlin RL, Bloom BR. Immunology. Chip shots--will functional genomics get functional? Science. 2001;294(5543):799–801.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tex DM, Kamiya I, Kanemitsu Y. Control of hot-carrier relaxation for realizing ideal quantum-dot intermediate-band solar cells. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4125.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Zhu W, Xiao D, Liu Y, et al. Picosecond electric field pulse induced coherent magnetic switching in MgO/FePt/Pt(001)-based tunnel junctions: a multiscale study. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Allen M. Foundations of Forensic Document Analysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Deindl E, Kupatt C, editors. Therapeutic Neovascularization–Quo Vadis? Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Frey H, Rührup S, Stojmenović I. Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Misra SC, Woungang I, Misra S, editors. Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks. London: Springer; 2009. p. 81–111.

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 Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. What The Color Of Your Snot Says About Your Health [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/decoding-snot-what-color-says-about-your-health/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Data on the Office of Education’s Use of Funds for Conferences, Seminars, and Training Sessions, and Consultants, Experts, and Consulting Organizations in Lieu of Federal Employees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975. Report No.: MWD-75-88. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mednick Takami L. Chief Diversity Officers in U.S. Higher Education: Impacting the Campus Climate for Diversity [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

[1]

Kishkovsky S. Kept From TV, Report on Moscow Finds an Audience. New York Times. 2008 Sep 1;C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Cardiovasc. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1477-9072
ISSN (online)	1744-8344
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Internal Medicine