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

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

Dijkstra, J. M. (2014). TH2 and Treg candidate genes in elephant shark. Nature, 511(7508), E7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Q., & Wang, X. (2013). Opinion dynamics with similarity-based random neighbors. Scientific reports, 3, 2968.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nemecek, J. C., Wüthrich, M., & Klein, B. S. (2006). Global control of dimorphism and virulence in fungi. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5773), 583–588.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tylewicz, S., Petterle, A., Marttila, S., Miskolczi, P., Azeez, A., Singh, R. K., … Bhalerao, R. P. (2018). Photoperiodic control of seasonal growth is mediated by ABA acting on cell-cell communication. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6385), 212–215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

zur Hausen, H. (2006). Infections Causing Human Cancer. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Abdul Rahman, A., Boguslawski, P., Gold, C., & Said, M. N. (Eds.). (2013). Developments in Multidimensional Spatial Data Models. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bruner, B. D., Soifer, H., Negro, M., Devetta, M., Faccialá, D., Vozzi, C., … Dudovich, N. (2015). Disentangling Structural and Dynamical Effects via Multidimensional High Harmonic Spectroscopy. In K. Yamanouchi, S. Cundiff, R. de Vivie-Riedle, M. Kuwata-Gonokami, & L. DiMauro (Eds.), Ultrafast Phenomena XIX: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference, Okinawa Convention Center, Okinawa, Japan, July 7-11, 2014 (pp. 20–23). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Translational Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 11). Antioxidants Can Make Cancers Worse. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1984). The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Request for Radio Frequencies (No. RCED-84-158). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Farrell, D. P. (2017). Teachers’ Perceptions of How the Use of Peer Evaluation Could Improve Their Teaching Practice (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Scheiber, N. (2017, October 17). Arthur Cinader, J. Crew Founder Who Defined Preppy, Dies at 90. New York Times, p. B15.

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 Translational Research
Abbreviation	J. Cardiovasc. Transl. Res.
ISSN (print)	1937-5387
ISSN (online)	1937-5395
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Genetics(clinical) Pharmaceutical Science