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

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

Maldovan M. Sound and heat revolutions in phononics. Nature 2013;503:209–17.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Schubert EF, Kim JK. Solid-state light sources getting smart. Science 2005;308:1274–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Losos JB, Hillis DM, Greene HW. Evolution. Who speaks with a forked tongue? Science 2012;338:1428–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shimizu A, Nakatani Y, Nakamura T, Jinno-Oue A, Ishikawa O, Boeke JD, et al. Characterisation of cytoplasmic DNA complementary to non-retroviral RNA viruses in human cells. Sci Rep 2014;4:5074.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zhang L, Peng M, Chang D, Xu Y. Dam Failure Mechanisms and Risk Assessment. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Gübitz G, Bauer A, Bochmann G, Gronauer A, Weiss S, editors. Biogas Science and Technology. vol. 151. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Villacis B, Carrillo D. The Socioeconomic Paradox of Galapagos. In: Walsh SJ, Mena CF, editors. Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands: Frameworks & Perspectives, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 69–85.

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.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Brain images reveal how we distinguish real and fake laughter. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-images-reveal-how-we-distinguish-real-and-fake-laughter/ (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. Children’s Issues: A Decade of GAO Reports and Recent Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zitko JA. Effects of Random Cross-Sectioned Distributions, Fiber Misalignment and Interphases in Three-Dimensional Composite Models on Transverse Shear Modulus. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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]

Dwyer J. Cruz’s Jab at Trump, and the Politics of Hypocrisy. New York Times 2016:A23.

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
Abbreviation	J. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0914-5087
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine