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

Aanen DK. Developmental Biology. How a long-lived fungus keeps mutations in check. Science. 346(6212), 922–923 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowley JD, Blumenthal T. Medicine. The cart before the horse. Science. 321(5894), 1302–1304 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

Brennan MD, Cheong R, Levchenko A. Systems biology. How information theory handles cell signaling and uncertainty. Science. 338(6105), 334–335 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vorel SR, Liu X, Hayes RJ, Spector JA, Gardner EL. Relapse to cocaine-seeking after hippocampal theta burst stimulation. Science. 292(5519), 1175–1178 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Le Dret H. Partial Differential Equations: Modeling, Analysis and Numerical Approximation. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaddad FR, Cook ML. Conversions and Other Forms of Exit in U.S. Agricultural Cooperatives. In: Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies: The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry. Nilsson J (Ed.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 61–72 (2007).

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

Fang J. Researcher Stumbles Across Oldest Snake Fossils Ever Found In Museum [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/four-new-species-identified-oldest-snake-fossils-ever-discovered/.

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. Issues That Need to Be Considered in Formulating Strategies to Reduce Aviation Noise. 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

Koyanagi T. Design and Synthesis of Archaea-Inspired Tetraether Lipids. (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

Hyduk J. A Year That Can Never Be Taken From Cleveland. New York Times, SP4 (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

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