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]

Friedman M. Paleontology. Emerging onto a tangled bank. Science 2009;324:341–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Miller AI, Foote M. Increased longevities of post-Paleozoic marine genera after mass extinctions. Science 2003;302:1030–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Roberts L, Stone R, Sugden A. The rise of restoration ecology. Science 2009;325:555.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Körding E, Rupen M, Knigge C, Fender R, Dhawan V, Templeton M, et al. A transient radio jet in an erupting dwarf nova. Science 2008;320:1318–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Morri G, Mazza A. Property Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Benedetti R. Sampling Spatial Units for Agricultural Surveys. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lee R, Wolpert DH, Bono J, Backhaus S, Bent R, Tracey B. Counter-Factual Reinforcement Learning: How to Model Decision-Makers That Anticipate the Future. In: Guy TV, Karny M, Wolpert D, editors. Decision Making and Imperfection, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 101–28.

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]

Carpineti C. One Of The World’s Leading Astronomers Has A Dire Warning For Humanity. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-of-the-worlds-leading-astronomers-has-a-dire-warning-for-humanity/ (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. Status, Progress, and Problems in Federal Agency Accounting 1969 Annual Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hawkins SH. Lung CT Radiomics: An Overview of Using Images as Data. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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]

Pilon M. Wanted: Snow. Cold. New York Times 2013:B12.

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