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

Russo E. Getting on the fast-track to full-time employment. Nature. 2004;432(7014):254-255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bahr K, Simpson F. Electrical anisotropy below slow- and fast-moving plates: paleoflow in the upper mantle? Science. 2002;295(5558):1270-1272.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siegel M, Buschman TJ, Miller EK. Cortical information flow during flexible sensorimotor decisions. Science. 2015;348(6241):1352-1355.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dioum EM, Rutter J, Tuckerman JR, Gonzalez G, Gilles-Gonzalez MA, McKnight SL. NPAS2: a gas-responsive transcription factor. Science. 2002;298(5602):2385-2387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shahidi A. Balanced Asset Allocation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Errington AC, Di Giovanni G, Crunelli V, eds. Extrasynaptic GABAA Receptors. Vol 27. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Weir T, Manter D, Kofer W. Microbes: A New Frontier in Tropical Chemical Biology. In: Vivanco JM, Weir T, eds. Chemical Biology of the Tropics: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Signaling and Communication in Plants. Springer; 2011:71-86.

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

Andrew E. Human Spaceflight Launches Will Return to the United States. IFLScience. Published September 16, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/human-spaceflight-launches-will-return-united-states/

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. Transportation-Disadvantaged Seniors: Efforts to Enhance Senior Mobility Could Benefit from Additional Guidance and Information. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yudell M. Making Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20th Century American Thought. Doctoral dissertation. 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

M’kay IP. REDEFINING POLITICAL TERMS; Need Seen for New Outlook on the Tariff and Isolation. New York Times. September 5, 1936:social news books14.

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