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

Layard R. Economics. Measuring subjective well-being. Science. 327(5965), 534–535 (2010).

A journal article with 2 authors

Gupta M, Zare RN. Spinning molecules to bits. Nature. 407(6800), 33–34 (2000).

A journal article with 3 authors

Raymo ME, Lisiecki LE, Nisancioglu KH. Plio-Pleistocene ice volume, Antarctic climate, and the global delta18O record. Science. 313(5786), 492–495 (2006).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Butts DA, Weng C, Jin J, et al. Temporal precision in the neural code and the timescales of natural vision. Nature. 449(7158), 92–95 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dasgupta A. Resolving Erroneous Reports in Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Nahab FB, Hattori N, editors. Neuroimaging of Movement Disorders. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Bell S. In the Drink: Sunken Aircraft of the Battle of Saipan. In: Underwater Archaeology of a Pacific Battlefield: The WWII Battle of Saipan. McKinnon JF, Carrell TL (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 49–62 (2015).

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

Andrew E. Magnetic Fields Can Control Heat And Sound. IFLScience (2015).

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. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Acquisition Has Increased Costs, Reduced Capabilities, and Delayed Schedules. 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

Dovale MJ. Postwar japan’s hybrid modernity of in-betweenness: Historical, literary, and social perspectives. (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

Vecsey G. In Hockey, Game 7 Is Different. New York Times, B13 (2012).

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

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