How to format your references using the Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS). 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

[1] Schwefel HGL. Optics. In optical pumping, less can be more. Science 2014;346:304–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1] Pandey A, Mann M. Proteomics to study genes and genomes. Nature 2000;405:837–46.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1] Zhang W, Kawamata H, Liu K. CH stretching excitation in the early barrier F + CHD3 reaction inhibits CH bond cleavage. Science 2009;325:303–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1] Carette JE, Raaben M, Wong AC, Herbert AS, Obernosterer G, Mulherkar N, et al. Ebola virus entry requires the cholesterol transporter Niemann-Pick C1. Nature 2011;477:340–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1] Corns TN. A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Blackwell Publishing Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1] Eugster P, editor. Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2008 Workshop Reader: ECOOP 2008 Workshops Paphos, Cyprus, July 7-11, 2008 Final Reports. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1] Bensaid H, Caferra R, Peltier N. I-Terms in Ordered Resolution and Superposition Calculi: Retrieving Lost Completeness. In: Autexier S, Calmet J, Delahaye D, Ion PDF, Rideau L, Rioboo R, et al., Eds. Intelligent Computer Mathematics: 10th International Conference, AISC 2010, 17th Symposium, Calculemus 2010, and 9th International Conference, MKM 2010, Paris, France, July 5-10, 2010. Proceedings Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 19–33.

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 Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery.

Blog post

[1] Evans K. 26 Time-Management Tricks I Wish I’d Known At 20. IFLScience. IFLScience 2016 [accessed 2018] .Available from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/twenty-six-time-management-tricks-i-wish-i-had-known-at-twenty/.

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

[1] Government Accountability Office. Army Deployment: Better Transportation Planning Is Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1] Antoshin S. Modeling inflation expectations in the U.K. George Washington University: Washington, DC 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

[1] Koblin J. Two Asian-American Actors in ‘Hawaii Five-0’ Depart. New York Times. 2017 Jul. 6B5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery
ISSN (print)	1569-9293
ISSN (online)	1569-9285
Scope

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