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]

Tokano T. Planetary science. Precipitation climatology on Titan. Science 2011;331:1393–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Frusawa H, Matsumoto Y. Tuning the size and configuration of nanocarbon microcapsules: aqueous method using optical tweezers. Sci Rep 2014;4:4074.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Janasek D, Franzke J, Manz A. Scaling and the design of miniaturized chemical-analysis systems. Nature 2006;442:374–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

White AR, Enever P, Tayebi M, Mushens R, Linehan J, Brandner S, et al. Monoclonal antibodies inhibit prion replication and delay the development of prion disease. Nature 2003;422:80–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gros D, Lannoo K. The Euro Capital Market. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Rehm G, Uszkoreit H, editors. The Norwegian Language in the Digital Age: Bokmalsversjon. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sancha AM, O’Ryan R. Managing Hazardous Pollutants in Chile: Arsenic. In: Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Vol 196, New York, NY: Springer US; 2008, p. 123–46.

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. Two More Mysterious Siberian Craters Discovered. IFLScience 2014.

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. FAA’s Air Traffic Controller Staffing Standards. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wilson B. Scale effects and the determinants of parcel subdivision: A discrete -time hazard analysis. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2009.

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]

Koblin J, Wingfield N. Amazon Suspends Executive Accused of Sex Harassment. New York Times 2017:B6.

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

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