How to format your references using the Indian Heart Journal citation style

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

Eisenstein M. Plant breeding: Discovery in a dry spell. Nature. 2013;501(7468):S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Palmer SM, Driscoll CT. Acidic deposition: decline in mobilization of toxic aluminium. Nature. 2002;417(6886):242-243.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi Y, Yoshizaki G, Takeuchi T. Biotechnology: surrogate broodstock produces salmonids. Nature. 2004;430(7000):629-630.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tyagi A, Kapoor P, Kumar R, Chaudhary K, Gautam A, Raghava GPS. In silico models for designing and discovering novel anticancer peptides. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nguyen K, Guo X, Pan Y. Multiple Biological Sequence Alignment: Scoring Functions, Algorithms and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Tominaga J. Optical Near-Field Recording: Science and Technology. (Nakano T, ed.). Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Blair JA. What Is the Right Amount of Support for a Conclusion? In: Tindale CW, ed. Groundwork in the Theory of Argumentation: Selected Papers of J. Anthony Blair. Argumentation Library. Springer Netherlands; 2012:51-59.

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 Indian Heart Journal.

Blog post

Evans K. Barbary Macaques To Get Highest Protection Level To Fight Pet Trade. IFLScience. September 29, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/barbary-macaques-to-get-highest-protection-level-to-fight-pet-trade/

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. Mass Transit: Issues Related to Providing Dedicated Funding for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Duerr PS. Investigation of Marine Waterjet Inlets during Turning Maneuvers. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic 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

Williams J. Waiting for the Mail. New York Times. October 16, 2016:BR4.

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	Indian Heart Journal
Abbreviation	Indian Heart J.
ISSN (print)	0019-4832
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine