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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Stafford N. History: The changing notion of food. Nature. 2010;468(7327):S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Medzhitov R, Janeway CA Jr. Decoding the patterns of self and nonself by the innate immune system. Science. 2002;296(5566):298-300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hillenbrand R, Taubner T, Keilmann F. Phonon-enhanced light matter interaction at the nanometre scale. Nature. 2002;418(6894):159-162.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bittar F, Keita MB, Lagier JC, Peeters M, Delaporte E, Raoult D. Gorilla gorilla gorilla gut: a potential reservoir of pathogenic bacteria as revealed using culturomics and molecular tools. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7174.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahonen TT. M-Profits. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

McGowan BL, Palmer RT, Wood JL, Hibbler DF, eds. Black Men in the Academy: Narratives of Resiliency, Achievement, and Success. Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Holland MB. Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. In: Hilty JA, Chester CC, Cross MS, eds. Climate and Conservation: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2012:56-66.

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 Disease Research.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. This May Be The First Failed Supernova We’ve Ever Found. IFLScience. May 26, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-may-be-the-first-failed-supernova-weve-ever-found/

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. Airport Financing: Projects Eligible for Federal Support That May Go Unfunded. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Primeaux SJ. The Role of Education, Empathy, and Psychological Flexibility in Implicit and Explicit Mental Health Stigma. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana; 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

Poniewozik J. ‘Megyn Kelly’ Is Awkward, Not Partisan. New York Times. October 1, 2017:C1.

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 Cardiovascular Disease Research
Abbreviation	J. Cardiovasc. Dis. Res.
ISSN (print)	0975-3583
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine