How to format your references using the Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease. 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

Trounson, A. Keith H. Campbell (1954-2012). Nature 2012, 491, 193.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tao, F.F.; Salmeron, M. In Situ Studies of Chemistry and Structure of Materials in Reactive Environments. Science 2011, 331, 171–174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deng, L.; Shangguan, Z.-P.; Sweeney, S. “Grain for Green” Driven Land Use Change and Carbon Sequestration on the Loess Plateau, China. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7039.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Basu, A.R.; Jacobsen, S.B.; Poreda, R.J.; Dowling, C.B.; Aggarwal, P.K. Large Groundwater Strontium Flux to the Oceans from the Bengal Basin and the Marine Strontium Isotope Record. Science 2001, 293, 1470–1473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodman, G.B. Why Cultural Studies?; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2014; ISBN 9781118941850.

An edited book

Nelson, L.S. Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants; Shih, R.D., Balick, M.J., Eds.; Second Edition.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2007; ISBN 9780387312682.

A chapter in an edited book

Keswani, C.; Bisen, K.; Singh, S.P.; Sarma, B.K.; Singh, H.B. A Proteomic Approach to Understand the Tripartite Interactions Between Plant-Trichoderma-Pathogen: Investigating the Potential for Efficient Biological Control. In Plant, Soil and Microbes: Volume 2: Mechanisms and Molecular Interactions; Hakeem, K.R., Akhtar, M.S., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 79–93 ISBN 9783319295725.

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 Development and Disease.

Blog post

Hale, T. What’s The Story Behind These Weird Rock Spheres Found In Siberia? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/story-behind-these-weird-rock-sphere-found-siberia/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Financial Management: Actions Needed to Ensure Effective Implementation of NASA’s Accounting System; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Locicero, L.M. The Effects of Vertical Casting Position in Reinforced Concrete. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 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

Saslow, L. Supervisor for the Short Term in Brookhaven. New York Times 2009, LI2.

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 Cardiovascular Development and Disease
Abbreviation	J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis.
ISSN (online)	2308-3425
Scope