How to format your references using the Heart, Lung and Circulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Heart, Lung and Circulation. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Fauci AS. Biodefence on the research agenda. Nature 2003;421:787.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hudson ZM, Manners I. Chemistry. Assembly and disassembly of ferrocene-based nanotubes. Science 2014;344:482–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chaudhari NK, Song MY, Yu J-S. Heteroatom-doped highly porous carbon from human urine. Sci Rep 2014;4:5221.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Konishi S, Izawa T, Lin SY, Ebana K, Fukuta Y, Sasaki T, et al. An SNP caused loss of seed shattering during rice domestication. Science 2006;312:1392–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Irene EA. Electronic Materials Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Lodén M, Maibach HI, editors. Treatment of Dry Skin Syndrome: The Art and Science of Moisturizers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Leung CB, Wang Y. Influences of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese Literacy Instruction. In: Leung CB, Ruan J, editors. Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Chinese Literacy in China, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012, p. 49–60.

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 Heart, Lung and Circulation.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. The Great Barrier Reef’s ‘New Normal’ Is A Forlorn Sight. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-great-barrier-reefs-new-normal-ii-a-forlorn-sight/ (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. Army Battlefield Automation: Oversight Needed to Assure Integrated System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Clark J. Screening for Allelopathic Potential and Self Facilitation in Japanese Hops (Humulus japonicus, Cannabaceae). Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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]

Kenigsberg B. 6 Days. New York Times 2017:C9.

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	Heart, Lung and Circulation
Abbreviation	Heart Lung Circ.
ISSN (print)	1443-9506
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine