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]

Weil A. Mammalian evolution: A beast of the southern wild. Nature 2014;515:495–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kashefi K, Lovley DR. Extending the upper temperature limit for life. Science 2003;301:934.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cicerone RJ, Molina MJ, Blake DR. Retrospective. F. Sherwood Rowland (1927-2012). Science 2012;336:170.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Battin TJ, Kaplan LA, Denis Newbold J, Hansen CME. Contributions of microbial biofilms to ecosystem processes in stream mesocosms. Nature 2003;426:439–42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Deutscher Beton- und Bautechnik-Ver. Beispiele zur Bemessung nach Eurocode 2. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Vincent J-L, Hall JB, editors. Encyclopedia of Intensive Care Medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Plesiewicz B, Wiszniowski J. Seismicity of Polish Part of the Western Carpathians in the Light of Recent Data. In: Guterch B, Kozák J, editors. Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland: Outer Western Carpathian Earthquake of December 3, 1786, and First Macroseismic Maps in 1858-1901, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 103–18.

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]

Hale T. This 2,700-Year-Old Toilet Was Probably Built By A King To Annoy Tribal Religions. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-2700yearold-toilet-was-probably-built-by-a-king-to-annoy-tribal-religions/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Highway Projects--Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects as of April 30, 2004. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Julfayan-Gregorian V. Success Strategies of First-Generation Foreign-Born Leaders. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 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

[1]

Vecsey G. Clouds Part Long Enough For a Memorable Ride. New York Times 2010:SP9.

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