How to format your references using the Global Heart citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Global Heart. 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

[1]

Varmus H. The new era in cancer research. Science 2006;312:1162–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Balazs AC, Epstein IR. Chemistry. Emergent or just complex? Science 2009;325:1632–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cabanes C, Cazenave A, Le Provost C. Sea level rise during past 40 years determined from satellite and in situ observations. Science 2001;294:840–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Serafini M, Bugianesi R, Maiani G, Valtuena S, De Santis S, Crozier A. Plasma antioxidants from chocolate. Nature 2003;424:1013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bobrow J, Kohn E, Mondragon-Gilmore J, Eggenschwiler J. CliffsNotes® Praxis I®: PPST®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Jericho BG, editor. Ethical Issues in Anesthesiology and Surgery. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chen P-C, Kim Y-C. The Determinants of Strategy Formulation and Change in Foreign Subsidiaries and Their Functional Units. In: Kim Y-C, editor. US Firms’ Business Competence in the Taiwanese IT Industry, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 135–81.

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 Global Heart.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Psychopaths Probably Do Experience Fear But May Be Unable To Sense Danger. IFLScience 2016.

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. Information Technology: Federal Agencies Face Challenges in Implementing Initiatives to Improve Public Health Infrastructure. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Willhite DG. Purification, Identification, and Partial Characterization of Proteins Associated with the Adaptive Immune Response to Soluble Protein Antigen in the American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana). Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2001.

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]

Baker AL. Push to Rid City of Classrooms That Are Anything but Temporary. New York Times 2014:A18.

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	Global Heart
Abbreviation	Glob. Heart
ISSN (print)	2211-8160
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Epidemiology Community and Home Care