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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of the Cardiovascular Academy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Krammer PH. CD95’s deadly mission in the immune system. Nature. 2000;407(6805):789-795.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsumoto M, Hikosaka O. Lateral habenula as a source of negative reward signals in dopamine neurons. Nature. 2007;447(7148):1111-1115.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi N, Yamanashi Y, Yoshikawa N. Reversible logic gate using adiabatic superconducting devices. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6354.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang W, Wang M, Wang L, Adams TS, Tian Y, Xu J. Diagnostic ability of %p2PSA and prostate health index for aggressive prostate cancer: a meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5012.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van der Heide P. Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Attal S, Joye A, Pillet CA, eds. Open Quantum Systems II: The Markovian Approach. Vol 1881. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Revathi A, Venkataramani Y. Text Independent Speaker and Emotion Independent Speech Recognition in Emotional Environment. In: Mandal JK, Satapathy SC, Kumar Sanyal M, Sarkar PP, Mukhopadhyay A, eds. Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications: Proceedings of Second International Conference INDIA 2015, Volume 1. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer India; 2015:43-52.

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 the Cardiovascular Academy.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Photographs Show Surface Of Venus. IFLScience. Published March 11, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-use-ground-based-radar-peer-under-venus-thick-cloak/

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. International Space Station: Significant Challenges May Limit Onboard Research. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Luse KM. Invariants of Knots, Graphs, and Feynman Diagrams. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

BRUCE LAMBERT; Linda Saslow contributed reporting for this article. County Chief Sets Sights on School Tax. New York Times. November 10, 2005:B11.

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	International Journal of the Cardiovascular Academy
ISSN (print)	2405-8181
Scope