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]

Kuratani S. Evolution. A muscular perspective on vertebrate evolution. Science 2013;341:139–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O’Shea JJ, Paul WE. Mechanisms underlying lineage commitment and plasticity of helper CD4+ T cells. Science 2010;327:1098–102.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Saalmann YB, Pigarev IN, Vidyasagar TR. Neural mechanisms of visual attention: how top-down feedback highlights relevant locations. Science 2007;316:1612–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Niikura H, Légaré F, Hasbani R, Bandrauk AD, Ivanov MY, Villeneuve DM, et al. Sub-laser-cycle electron pulses for probing molecular dynamics. Nature 2002;417:917–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Billingsley J. Essentials of Mechatronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Marchiori E, Moore JH, Rajapakse JC, editors. Evolutionary Computation,Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics: 5th European Conference, EvoBIO 2007, Valencia, Spain, April 11-13, 2007. Proceedings. vol. 4447. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Turechek WW. The practical considerations of scale in plant pathology. In: Cooke BM, editor. Plant disease epidemiology: facing challenges of the 21st Century: Under the aegis of an International Plant Disease Epidemiology Workshop held at Landernau, France, 10–15th April, 2005, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006, p. 53–9.

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 D. How To Capture An Asteroid – And Why We Should Go To Such Trouble. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-to-capture-an-asteroid-and-why-we-should-go-to-such-trouble/ (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. Telecommunications: Current Broadband Measures Have Limitations and New Measures Are Promising but Need Improvement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hernandez L. A culturally sensitive mentorship program for foster youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Vecsey G. Smile When You Say It: Same Old Jets. New York Times 2011:B25.

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

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