How to format your references using the International Journal of Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Cardiology. 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]

D. Endy, Foundations for engineering biology, Nature. 438 (2005) 449–453.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N.A. Simmons, H. Gurrola, Multiple seismic discontinuities near the base of the transition zone in the Earth’s mantle, Nature. 405 (2000) 559–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.P. Topper, L.E. Holmer, J.-B. Caron, Brachiopods hitching a ride: an early case of commensalism in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6704.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Metrangolo, Y. Carcenac, M. Lahtinen, T. Pilati, K. Rissanen, A. Vij, G. Resnati, Nonporous organic solids capable of dynamically resolving mixtures of diiodoperfluoroalkanes, Science. 323 (2009) 1461–1464.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.B. Lee, Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Bove, F. Colombini, D.D. Santo, eds., Phase Space Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Neubauer, E-Learning Support for Business Process Modeling: Linking Modeling Language Concepts to General Modeling Concepts and Vice Versa, in: C. Stary (Ed.), S-BPM ONE – Scientific Research: 4th International Conference, S-BPM ONE 2012, Vienna, Austria, April 4-5, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 62–76.

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 International Journal of Cardiology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Can Invertebrates Feel Pain?, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/can-invertebrates-feel-pain/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Public Transportation: Federal Role in Value Capture Strategies for Transit Is Limited, but Additional Guidance Could Help Clarify Policies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.H. Wadhwa, Secure building automation system using Tesla protocol, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by, Arts, Briefly; Ukrainian Song Rewritten for Eurovision Contest, New York Times. (2005) E2.

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	International Journal of Cardiology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0167-5273
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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