How to format your references using the Heart Rhythm citation style

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

Ciais P: Journal club. A geoscientist is astounded by Earth’s huge frozen carbon deposits. Nature 2009; 462:393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phrampus BJ, Hornbach MJ: Recent changes to the Gulf Stream causing widespread gas hydrate destabilization. Nature 2012; 490:527–530.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deller AT, Bailes M, Tingay SJ: Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B. Science 2009; 323:1327–1329.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Koller J, Baumer U, Kaup Y, Schmid M, Weser U: Ancient materials: analysis of a pharaonic embalming tar. Nature 2003; 425:784.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noldus R: CAMEL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006,.

An edited book

Le Thi HA, Nguyen NT, Do TV, editors: Advanced Computational Methods for Knowledge Engineering: Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Applications - ICCSAMA 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015,.

A chapter in an edited book

Majchrowska A: The Implementation of the European Landscape Convention in Poland. In Jones M, Stenseke M, eds: The European Landscape Convention: Challenges of Participation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011, pp. 81–98.

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 Rhythm.

Blog post

Andrew E: Vaccinating Against Measles Could Also Protect You From Other Infectious Diseases [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30],. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vaccinating-against-measles-also-protects-you-other-infectious-diseases/

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: Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA) Implementation Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001 Jul. Report No.: GAO-01-958R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fine JG: Magical Transformation or Illusion of Grandeur: The Development of Downtown West Palm Beach, 1985-2015 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic 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

Brantley B: Strangers Arrive, and the Desert Blooms. New York Times 2016 Dec 9;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Rhythm
Abbreviation	Heart Rhythm
ISSN (print)	1547-5271
ISSN (online)	1556-3871
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)