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

Brumfiel, G. (2003). French minister breaks diplomatic ice with visit to US. Nature, 422(6932), 551.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacInnis, B. L., & Campenot, R. B. (2002). Retrograde support of neuronal survival without retrograde transport of nerve growth factor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5559), 1536–1539.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hessa, T., White, S. H., & von Heijne, G. (2005). Membrane insertion of a potassium-channel voltage sensor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5714), 1427.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Reid, S. D., Herbelin, C. J., Bumbaugh, A. C., Selander, R. K., & Whittam, T. S. (2000). Parallel evolution of virulence in pathogenic Escherichia coli. Nature, 406(6791), 64–67.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geotechni, Laackmann, K., Balthaus, H., Braach, O., Friebel, W.-D., Hettler, A., … Wittke-Schmitt, B. (2015). Taschenbuch für den Tunnelbau 2015. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Prins, H. H. T., & Langevelde, F. V. (Eds.). (2008). Resource Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Foraging (Vol. 23). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Khanna, A. K., & Farag, E. (2015). Anesthesia for Spine Osteotomy Surgery. In Y. Wang, O. Boachie-Adjei, & L. Lenke (Eds.), Spinal Osteotomy (pp. 37–56). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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, August 4). How To Cook A Steak With Lava. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-cook-steak-lava/

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. (1987). Aviation Security: FAA Preboard Passenger Screening Test Results (No. RCED-87-125FS). 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

Witowski, L. L. (2008). The relationship between instructional delivery methods and student learning preferences: What contributes to student satisfaction in an online learning environment? (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Hu, W. (2016, March 5). New Bronx District Attorney Fixes Her Sights on Rikers Island Cases. New York Times, p. A18.

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