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

Lewis, R. Genes versus Cancer. Nature 2007, 446, 826–827.

A journal article with 2 authors

West, S.A.; Gardner, A. Altruism, Spite, and Greenbeards. Science 2010, 327, 1341–1344.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elsner, J.B.; Kossin, J.P.; Jagger, T.H. The Increasing Intensity of the Strongest Tropical Cyclones. Nature 2008, 455, 92–95.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Banerjee, A.; Yang, W.; Karplus, M.; Verdine, G.L. Structure of a Repair Enzyme Interrogating Undamaged DNA Elucidates Recognition of Damaged DNA. Nature 2005, 434, 612–618.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lu, K. Materials in Energy Conversion, Harvesting, and Storage; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, New Jersey, 2014; ISBN 9781118892374.

An edited book

Electronic Government: 5th International Conference, EGOV 2006, Kraków, Poland, September 4-8, 2006. Proceedings; Wimmer, M.A., Scholl, H.J., Grönlund, Å., Andersen, K.V., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; Vol. 4084; ISBN 9783540376866.

A chapter in an edited book

Benesty, J.; Chen, J.; Huang, Y.; Cohen, I. Mean-Squared Error Criterion. In Noise Reduction in Speech Processing; Huang, Y., Chen, J., Benesty, J., Eds.; Springer Topics in Signal Processing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp. 1–6 ISBN 9783642002953.

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

Hamilton, K. Why Has Japan’s Massacre Of Disabled Gone Unnoticed? For Answers, Look To The Past Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-has-japans-massacre-of-disabled-gone-unnoticed-for-answers-look-to-the-past/ (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 Geospatial Data: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts [Reissued March 18, 2015]; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chung, J. Quasi-One-Dimensional Modeling of an Adiabatic-Compression Preheated Ludwieg Tube. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2015.

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

Leland, J. Painting Brooklyn, Without a Brush. New York Times 2016, MB8.

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

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