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How to format your references using the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Brock JD. Chemistry. Watching atoms move. Science. 2007;315(5812):609-610.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Lorincz A, Nusser Z. Molecular identity of dendritic voltage-gated sodium channels. Science. 2010;328(5980):906-909.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Babaev E, Sudbø A, Ashcroft NW. A superconductor to superfluid phase transition in liquid metallic hydrogen. Nature. 2004;431(7009):666-668.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Gemelke N, Zhang X, Hung CL, Chin C. In situ observation of incompressible Mott-insulating domains in ultracold atomic gases. Nature. 2009;460(7258):995-998.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Marcus Y. Supercritical Water. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.
An edited book
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Stoltenberg SF, ed. Genes and the Motivation to Use Substances. Vol 61. Springer; 2014.
A chapter in an edited book
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Kreku J, Tiensyrjä K. System Exploration. In: Soudris D, Jantsch A, eds. Scalable Multi-Core Architectures: Design Methodologies and Tools. Springer; 2012:107-137.

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 Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

Blog post
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Evans K. Stephen Hawking: Humans Only Have About 1,000 Years Left. IFLScience. November 17, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stephen-hawking-says-humans-only-have-about-1000-years-left/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Federal Aviation Administration: Stronger Architecture Program Needed to Guide Systems Modernization Efforts. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Al-Alawadhi F. Oral History of Women Educators in Kuwait: A Comparative Model of Care Ethics Between Noddings and Al-Ghazali. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati; 2014.

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
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Williams J. An Observer Inside the Terrifying World of Jihad. New York Times. June 11, 2017:C5.

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 titleJournal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
AbbreviationJ. Cardiovasc. Comput. Tomogr.
ISSN (print)1934-5925
ScopeCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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