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]

Holt R. US election: Politicians should think like scientists. Nature. 2012;489:493–494.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Roberson ED, Mucke L. 100 years and counting: prospects for defeating Alzheimer’s disease. Science. 2006;314:781–784.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Buchner DA, Trudeau M, Meisler MH. SCNM1, a putative RNA splicing factor that modifies disease severity in mice. Science. 2003;301:967–969.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Murakami S, Nakashima R, Yamashita E, et al. Crystal structure of bacterial multidrug efflux transporter AcrB. Nature. 2002;419:587–593.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zhu Z, Nandi AK. Automatic Modulation Classification. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Hayat MA, editor. Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 6: Spinal Tumors (Part 1). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bagatolli LA. Monitoring Membrane Hydration with 2-(Dimethylamino)-6-Acylnaphtalenes Fluorescent Probes. In: Disalvo EA, editor. Membrane Hydration: The Role of Water in the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 105–125.

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. Ancient Skeleton Reveals 10,000-Year Link To Modern Tribes In Pacific Northwest [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-skeleton-reveals-10000-year-link-to-modern-tribes-in-pacific-northwest/.

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. Arts Funding: Public Funding Profiles of the NEA States and Cities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991. Report No.: GGD-92-35FS. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Armstrong A. Tactic-Based Learning for collective learning systems [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2008.

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]

Wagner J. Unlikely Contributors Give Mets Hope. New York Times. 2016 Aug 26;B9.

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

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