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

Eisner JA: Water vapour and hydrogen in the terrestrial-planet-forming region of a protoplanetary disk. Nature 2007; 447:562–564.

A journal article with 2 authors

Low HH, Löwe J: A bacterial dynamin-like protein. Nature 2006; 444:766–769.

A journal article with 3 authors

Laland KN, Odling-Smee J, Feldman MW: Causing a commotion. Nature 2004; 429:609.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang Y, Zuo T, Cheng Y, Liaw PK: High-entropy alloys with high saturation magnetization, electrical resistivity, and malleability. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheer J: Failed Bridges. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2010,.

An edited book

Holmarsdottir HB, Nomlomo V, Farag AI, Desai Z, editors: Gendered Voices: Reflections on Gender and Education in South Africa and Sudan. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2013,.

A chapter in an edited book

Beccuti M, Franceschinis G, Kaâniche M, Kanoun K: Multi-level Dependability Modeling of Interdependencies between the Electricity and Information Infrastructures. In Setola R, Geretshuber S, eds: Critical Information Infrastructure Security: Third International Workshop, CRITIS 2008, Rome, Italy, October13-15, 2008. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 48–59.

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

Evans K: Tiny Robot Drones Developed To Help Declining Bees Pollinate Plants. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2017,.

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: NSF Experiment in Research Grant Administration Promising. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 Sep. Report No.: PAD-82-7.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Narita D: Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and climate change mitigation: An analysis of economic optimality and policy making [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia 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

de la MERCED MJ: Activist Fund Cashes Out Of Stake in Whole Foods. New York Times 2017 Jul 20;B2.

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)