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]

Rowan-Robinson M. Astronomy. Probing the cold universe. Science 2009;325:546–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Steiner G, Salvini-Plawen L. Acaenoplax--polychaete or mollusc? Nature 2001;414:601–2; discussion 602.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tang R-Y, Li G, Yu J-Q. Conformation-induced remote meta-C-H activation of amines. Nature 2014;507:215–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

McDonel P, Jans J, Peterson BK, Meyer BJ. Clustered DNA motifs mark X chromosomes for repression by a dosage compensation complex. Nature 2006;444:614–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kontush A, Chapman MJ. High-Density Lipoproteins. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Pott A, Bruckmann T, editors. Cable-Driven Parallel Robots: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots. vol. 32. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Speed T. Last Words on Anova? In: Dudoit S, editor. Selected Works of Terry Speed, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 141–275.

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]

Andrew E. Scientists Want To Map Your Moggy’s Microbiome. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/kitty-kickstarter-map-your-moggys-microbiome/ (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. Earth Observing System: Funding Requirements for NASA’s EOSDIS. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Geist C. The marriage economy: Examining the economic impact and the context of marriage in comparative perspective. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana 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]

Greenhouse L. Case Reopens Abortion Issue for Justices. New York Times 2005:A21.

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

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