How to format your references using the Interventional Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Interventional 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	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

Stone EC. Planetary science. News from the edge of interstellar space. Science. 293(5527), 55–56 (2001).

A journal article with 2 authors

Mas-Ballesté R, Que L Jr. Chemistry. Targeting specific C-H bonds for oxidation. Science. 312(5782), 1885–1886 (2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

Gómez JM, Verdú M, Perfectti F. Ecological interactions are evolutionarily conserved across the entire tree of life. Nature. 465(7300), 918–921 (2010).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li P-S, Lee I-L, Yu W-L, Sun J-S, Jane W-N, Shen H-H. A novel albumin-based tissue scaffold for autogenic tissue engineering applications. Sci. Rep. 4, 5600 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith EM. Advances in Thermal Design of Heat Exchangers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Leong SPL, editor. From Local Invasion to Metastatic Cancer: Involvement of Distant Sites Through the Lymphovascular System. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Vatsavai V, Suravarapu S, Mir NF. Implementation of P2P File Sharing Using Bi-directional Chord Protocol Algorithm. In: Advanced Computer and Communication Engineering Technology: Proceedings of ICOCOE 2015. Sulaiman HA, Othman MA, Othman MFI, Rahim YA, Pee NC (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 51–62 (2016).

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 Interventional Cardiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. This Will Revolutionize Education [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/why-has-technology-not-revolutionized-education/.

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. Comments on Legislation To Establish a Department of Education. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Arnold DM. An Examination of Job Satisfaction Among Full-Time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College. (2017).

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

Hubbard B. Qaeda-Linked Militants Are Finding Elbow Room Among Syria’s Displaced. New York Times, A6 (2017).

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	Interventional Cardiology
Abbreviation	Interv. Cardiol. (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	1755-5302
ISSN (online)	1755-5310
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine