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

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

Schubert C. Single-cell analysis: The deepest differences. Nature 2011;480:133–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pisharody SN, Jones RR. Probing two-electron dynamics of an atom. Science 2004;303:813–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Brummelkamp TR, Bernards R, Agami R. A system for stable expression of short interfering RNAs in mammalian cells. Science 2002;296:550–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Prevedel R, Walther P, Tiefenbacher F, Böhi P, Kaltenbaek R, Jennewein T, et al. High-speed linear optics quantum computing using active feed-forward. Nature 2007;445:65–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McCormick K, Salcedo J. SPSS reg Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Unwin A. Graphics of Large Datasets: Visualizing a Million. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wessels H. Statistics in the South African School Curriculum. In: Batanero C, Burrill G, Reading C, editors. Teaching Statistics in School Mathematics-Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education: A Joint ICMI/IASE Study: The 18th ICMI Study, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 21–5.

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 Cardiology Cases.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Stunning Video Depicts Cassini Spacecraft’s Dramatic End. IFLScience 2017.

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. Surface Transportation: Moving into the 21st Century. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Liang JR. A Risk Analysis of the Molybdenum-99 Supply Chain Using Bayesian Networks. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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

[1]

Qiu L. On Spectrum of Extremism, Far Left Takes Relatively Little Space. New York Times 2017:A13.

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 Cardiology Cases
Abbreviation	J. Cardiol. Cases
ISSN (print)	1878-5409
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine