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

Sanderson, K. (2007). Nanotech growing pains. Nature, 446(7139), 963.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fujiwara, A., & Takahashi, Y. (2001). Manipulation of elementary charge in a silicon charge-coupled device. Nature, 410(6828), 560–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fiorillo, C. D., Tobler, P. N., & Schultz, W. (2003). Discrete coding of reward probability and uncertainty by dopamine neurons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5614), 1898–1902.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chen, J. G., Crooks, R. M., Seefeldt, L. C., Bren, K. L., Bullock, R. M., Darensbourg, M. Y., … Schrock, R. R. (2018). Beyond fossil fuel-driven nitrogen transformations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6391).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tourlakis, G. (2008). Mathematical Logic. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Li, G., & Baker, S. P. (Eds.). (2012). Injury Research: Theories, Methods, and Approaches. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Sen, S., Zhou, Z., & Huang, K. (2011). Stochastic Decomposition and Extensions. In G. Infanger (Ed.), Stochastic Programming: The State of the Art In Honor of George B. Dantzig (pp. 57–66). New York, NY: Springer.

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. (2015, August 21). Humans Are “Super Predators” That Are Driving Widespread Extinction. 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. (1976). General Accounting Office Reviews of Federal Environmental Research and Development (No. RED-76-95). 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

Thomas, L. E. (2017). Youth Art Ambassadors: A Youth Participatory Action Research Project Using Social Justice to Incite Change in Classrooms where Teachers Teach Young People of Color (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Fox, M. (2014, July 2). Anatoly Kornukov, 72; Led Russian Air Force. New York Times, p. B18.

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