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

Southwell K. Quantum coherence. Nature. 2008;453(7198):1003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schreiber H, Rowley DA. Cancer. Awakening immunity. Science. 2010;330(6005):761-762.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reznick DN, Mateos M, Springer MS. Independent origins and rapid evolution of the placenta in the fish genus Poeciliopsis. Science. 2002;298(5595):1018-1020.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang Z, Zhang Y, Zhang J, et al. Exploring natural silk protein sericin for regenerative medicine: an injectable, photoluminescent, cell-adhesive 3D hydrogel. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7064.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ni Z, Pacoret C, Benosman R, Régnier S. Haptic Feedback Teleoperation of Optical Tweezers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Hershberg E, LeoGrande WM, eds. A New Chapter in US-Cuba Relations: Social, Political, and Economic Implications. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Iacucci I, Saba L, Anzidei M. Plaque Imaging. In: Catalano C, Anzidei M, Napoli A, eds. Cardiovascular CT and MR Imaging: From Technique to Clinical Interpretation. Springer; 2013:55-70.

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

Andrew E. Good Tests Make Children Fail – Here’s Why. IFLScience.

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. ADP Systems: Better Control Over States’ Medicaid Systems Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rankinen WA. The Sociophonetic and Acoustic Vowel Dynamics of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula English. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University; 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

Gustines GG. Look! Up in the Sky! Hoping for Broadway! New York Times. July 4, 2010:AR3.

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