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]

Martin SJ. Cell biology. Opening the cellular poison cabinet. Science. 2010;330(6009):1330–1331.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gerszten RE, Wang TJ. The search for new cardiovascular biomarkers. Nature. 2008;451(7181):949–952.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ohbayashi M, Ohki K, Miyashita Y. Conversion of working memory to motor sequence in the monkey premotor cortex. Science. 2003;301(5630):233–236.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Yu L, Zhang Y, Zhang B, et al. Enhanced antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles/halloysite nanotubes/graphene nanocomposites with sandwich-like structure. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4551.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chong YY. Investment Risk Management. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Proulx T, editor. MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zazkis R, Sinclair N, Liljedahl P. On Divisibility by 4. In: Sinclair N, Liljedahl P, editors. Lesson Play in Mathematics Education: A Tool for Research and Professional Development. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 53–87.

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]

Fang J. Why Did Ichthyosaurs Go Extinct? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-did-ichthyosaurs-become-extinct/.

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. Department of Transportation: Experts Identified Areas for Operational Improvements without Implementing Organizational Changes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017. Report No.: GAO-17-478. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rollo E. Effect of the Stoplight Diet and mode of intervention on triglyceride production in a veteran population [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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]

Gorman J. When Tickled, Rats Giggle and Leap, Researchers Find. New York Times. 2016 Nov 10;A12.

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