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

Smaglik, P. In the Picture. Nature 2005, 434, 251.

A journal article with 2 authors

Adrain, C.; Martin, S.J. Cell Biology. Double Knockout Blow for Caspases. Science 2006, 311, 785–786.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wade, J.T.; Hall, D.B.; Struhl, K. The Transcription Factor Ifh1 Is a Key Regulator of Yeast Ribosomal Protein Genes. Nature 2004, 432, 1054–1058.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kohl, J.; Babayan, B.M.; Rubinstein, N.D.; Autry, A.E.; Marin-Rodriguez, B.; Kapoor, V.; Miyamishi, K.; Zweifel, L.S.; Luo, L.; Uchida, N.; et al. Functional Circuit Architecture Underlying Parental Behaviour. Nature 2018, 556, 326–331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lehman, R.; McMillan, L.G. Options for Volatile Markets; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118531518.

An edited book

Bladder Pain Syndrome: A Guide for Clinicians; Nordling, J., Wyndaele, J.J., Merwe, J.P. van de, Bouchelouche, P., Cervigni, M., Fall, M., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2013; ISBN 9781441969286.

A chapter in an edited book

Colaprete, A.; Vargo, K.; Shirley, M.; Landis, D.; Wooden, D.; Karcz, J.; Hermalyn, B.; Cook, A. An Overview of the LADEE Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrometer. In The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer Mission (LADEE); Elphic, R.C., Russell, C.T., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 63–91 ISBN 9783319187167.

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

O`Callaghan, J. Scientists Just Dealt A Major Blow To The Search For Life Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-just-dealt-a-major-blow-to-the-search-for-life/ (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 DOD Business Systems Modernization: Recent Slowdown in Institutionalizing Key Management Controls Needs to Be Addressed; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gonzaga Reed, R.R. The Impact of a Community-Based College Access Program at a Midwestern Institution. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO, 2017.

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

Vecsey, G. Back in Queens, Johnson Is Full of Memories and Statistics. New York Times 2013, B12.

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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