How to format your references using the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia. 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

Spaldin NA: Materials science. Fundamental size limits in ferroelectricity. Science 304:1606–7, 2004

A journal article with 2 authors

Horner-Devine MC, Martiny AC: Biogeochemistry. News about nitrogen. Science 320:757–8, 2008

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi K, Mitsui K, Yamanaka S: Role of ERas in promoting tumour-like properties in mouse embryonic stem cells. Nature 423:541–5, 2003

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ferguson N, Sharpe TD, Johnson CM, et al: Structural biology: analysis of “downhill” protein folding. Nature 445:E14-5; discussion E17-8, 2007

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lafontaine E, Comet M: Nanothermites. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016,

An edited book

Mugnolo D, editor: Mathematical Technology of Networks: Bielefeld, December 2013. Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015,

A chapter in an edited book

Fouvry É, Klüners J: Cohen–Lenstra Heuristics of Quadratic Number Fields, in: Hess F, Pauli S, Pohst M, eds. (ed): Algorithmic Number Theory: 7th International Symposium, ANTS-VII, Berlin, Germany, July 23-28, 2006. Proceedings Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2006, pp 40–55

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 Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia.

Blog post

Davis JIFLScience IFLScience,Retrieved from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/costa-rica-generated-most-of-its-electricity-from-renewable-sources-in-2016-but-its-not-what-it-seems/

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

Government Accountability OfficeWashington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office,

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nakayama MLong Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach,

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

Parker M-L: … I Had Actual Egg on My Face. New York Times:AR12, 2016

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
Abbreviation	J. Cardiothorac. Vasc. Anesth.
ISSN (print)	1053-0770
ISSN (online)	1532-8422
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine