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]

Herzberg C. Petrology and thermal structure of the Hawaiian plume from Mauna Kea volcano. Nature 2006;444:605–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tikhonov VI, Volkov AA. Separation of water into its ortho and para isomers. Science 2002;296:2363.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sun S, Ting C-T, Wu C-I. The normal function of a speciation gene, Odysseus, and its hybrid sterility effect. Science 2004;305:81–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Brouwer AM, Frochot C, Gatti FG, Leigh DA, Mottier L, Paolucci F, et al. Photoinduction of fast, reversible translational motion in a hydrogen-bonded molecular shuttle. Science 2001;291:2124–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Darling-Hammond L, Meyerson D, LaPointe M, Terry Orr M, Barber M, Cohen C, et al. Preparing Principals for a Changing World. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bas; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Darie C. Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yao K, Chen C-C. Optimum Spreading Sequences for Asynchronous CDMA System Based on Nonlinear Dynamical and Ergodic Theories. In: Larson LE, Tsimring LS, Liu J-M, editors. Digital Communications Using Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, New York, NY: Springer; 2006, p. 133–61.

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]

O`Callaghan J. We Finally Know How Big A “Failed Star” Can Be. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-finally-know-how-big-a-failed-star-can-be/ (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. Airline Industry: Potential Mergers and Acquisitions Driven by Financial and Competitive Pressures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

George KA. Housing adequacy and civic engagement in Los Angeles County. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

St. John Kelly E. At the Nation’s Table: Buffalo;Bottling the Secret Of the Wings. New York Times 1996:C4.

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