How to format your references using the Journal of Arrhythmia citation style

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

[1]

Shelly DR. Periodic, chaotic, and doubled earthquake recurrence intervals on the deep San Andreas fault. Science 2010;328:1385–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Johnson LDS, Jameson SC. Immunology. A chronic need for IL-21. Science 2009;324:1525–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

White N, Thompson M, Barwise T. Understanding the thermal evolution of deep-water continental margins. Nature 2003;426:334–43.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bauch D, Darling K, Simstich J, Bauch HA, Erlenkeuser H, Kroon D. Palaeoceanographic implications of genetic variation in living North Atlantic Neogloboquadrina pachyderma. Nature 2003;424:299–302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Southard TE, Marshall SD, Bonner LL. Orthodontics in the Vertical Dimension. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Jones CB, Lloyd JL, editors. Dependable and Historic Computing: Essays Dedicated to Brian Randell on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday. vol. 6875. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zbib HM. Introduction to Discrete Dislocation Dynamics. In: Sansour C, Skatulla S, editors. Generalized Continua and Dislocation Theory: Theoretical Concepts, Computational Methods and Experimental Verification, Vienna: Springer; 2012, p. 289–317.

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 Journal of Arrhythmia.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Scientists Call For A Ban On Microbeads. IFLScience 2015.

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. [Response to Request for Views on Application of P.L. 99-177 to Teacher Loan Cancellations]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Belflower KE. The relationship between demographic and employment variables of job satisfaction among emergency nurses. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2012.

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]

Conte L. Scouting Report. New York Times 2011:E5.

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	Journal of Arrhythmia
Abbreviation	J. Arrhythm.
ISSN (print)	1880-4276
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine