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]

Blackstock J. Researchers can’t regulate climate engineering alone. Nature 2012;486:159.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Allison EH, Bassett HR. Climate change in the oceans: Human impacts and responses. Science 2015;350:778–82.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Politi A, Matthews JCF, O’Brien JL. Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm on a photonic chip. Science 2009;325:1221.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bjedov I, Tenaillon O, Gérard B, Souza V, Denamur E, Radman M, et al. Stress-induced mutagenesis in bacteria. Science 2003;300:1404–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Reid R, Fraser-King G, Schwaderer WD. Data Lifecycles. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Tanaka M. Computational Biomechanics: Theoretical Background and Biological/Biomedical Problems. vol. 3. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lolli G. Peano and the Foundations of Arithmetic. In: Skof F, editor. Giuseppe Peano between Mathematics and Logic: Proceeding of the International Conference in honour of Giuseppe Peano on the 150th anniversary of his birth and the centennial of the Formulario Mathematico, Turin (Italy), October 2–3,2008, Milano: Springer; 2011, p. 47–67.

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]

Andrew E. Man Swims Near Shark in Sydney Harbor: Real or Hoax? IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/man-swims-near-shark-sydney-harbor-real-or-hoax/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Congress Faces Critical Decisions in Developing a National Policy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ho T. The influence of physical activity and unsafe neighborhoods on the development of gestational diabetes among women in California. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Billard M. What’s Old And New. New York Times 2010:E6.

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