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

Heilbron JL. Wit and wisdom. Nature. 2005;438(7064):29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suenaga K, Koshino M. Atom-by-atom spectroscopy at graphene edge. Nature. 2010;468(7327):1088-1090.

A journal article with 3 authors

Froemke RC, Merzenich MM, Schreiner CE. A synaptic memory trace for cortical receptive field plasticity. Nature. 2007;450(7168):425-429.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Roos CF, Chwalla M, Kim K, Riebe M, Blatt R. “Designer atoms” for quantum metrology. Nature. 2006;443(7109):316-319.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. Centrifugal Pumps (Newtonian Liquids). John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2002.

An edited book

Basner RC, Parthasarathy S, eds. Nocturnal Non-Invasive Ventilation: Theory, Evidence, and Clinical Practice. 1st ed. 2015. Springer US; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Spath D, van Husen C, Meyer K, Elze R. Integrated Development of Software and Service — The Challenges of IT-Enabled Service Products. In: Spath D, Fähnrich KP, eds. Advances in Services Innovations. Springer; 2007:85-110.

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. Women Preferred For STEM Professorships – As Long As They’re Equal To Or Better Than Male Candidates. IFLScience. Published October 22, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-preferred-stem-professorships-long-they-re-equal-or-better-male-candidates/

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. NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Legaspi J. Accelerated Supported Employment Program: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES. New York City’s Sconces. New York Times. November 18, 2016:RE10.

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

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