How to format your references using the Future Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future 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

Campbell PN. Health care in former soviet republics. Science. 288(5474), 2131b (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Straub T, Becker PB. Comment on “Drosophila dosage compensation involves enhanced Pol II recruitment to male X-linked promoters.” Science. 340(6130), 273 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

Kernbauer E, Ding Y, Cadwell K. An enteric virus can replace the beneficial function of commensal bacteria. Nature. 516(7529), 94–98 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Houbaert A, Zhang C, Tiwari M, et al. POLAR-guided signalling complex assembly and localization drive asymmetric cell division. Nature. 563(7732), 574–578 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robinson TR. Genetics for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Moore PK, Whiteman M, editors. Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology of Hydrogen Sulfide. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hansson SO. Agricultural Biotechnology for Health and the Environment. In: Biotechnology and Biodiversity. Ahuja MR, Ramawat KG (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 67–76 (2014).

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 Future Cardiology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Star Might Have Been Faking A Supernova Explosion [Internet]. IFLScience (2017). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/star-might-have-been-faking-a-supernova-explosion/.

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. Maritime Administration’s Satellite Communications Program: Is It Still Needed? U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pestano AC. The Utilization of a Web-Based Internet Application to Improve Access and Efficiency of In-Home Care Services Provided by Personal Care Aides. (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

Kennedy R, Davey M. Detroit’s Creditors Eye Its Art Collection. New York Times, C1 (2013).

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	Future Cardiology
Abbreviation	Future Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	1479-6678
ISSN (online)	1744-8298
Scope	Molecular Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine