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

Kulmala, M. (2015). Atmospheric chemistry: China’s choking cocktail. Nature, 526(7574), 497–499.

A journal article with 2 authors

Patzelt, F., & Pawelzik, K. (2013). An inherent instability of efficient markets. Scientific reports, 3, 2784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Klöckner, H.-R., Baan, W. A., & Garrett, M. A. (2003). Investigation of the obscuring circumnuclear torus in the active galaxy Mrk231. Nature, 421(6925), 821–823.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Parker, A. R., McPhedran, R. C., McKenzie, D. R., Botten, L. C., & Nicorovici, N. A. (2001). Photonic engineering. Aphrodite’s iridescence. Nature, 409(6816), 36–37.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sandén, B. I. (2011). Design of Multithreaded Software. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vicente-Serrano, S. M., & Trigo, R. M. (Eds.). (2011). Hydrological, Socioeconomic and Ecological Impacts of the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Mediterranean Region (Vol. 46). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Ulivieri, C., Laneve, G., & Ortore, E. (2010). The “Ulingo” Mid-Low Latitudes Observation (MILO) Mission. In R. Sandau, H.-P. Roeser, & A. Valenzuela (Eds.), Small Satellite Missions for Earth Observation: New Developments and Trends (pp. 67–72). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Fang, J. (2015, February 24). Bones of Gorilla-Sized Lemur Found in Underwater Graveyard. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bones-gorilla-sized-lemur-found-underwater-graveyard/

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. (1990). Competitiveness of Federal Computer Procurements (No. T-IMTEC-90-12). 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

Friedman, D. E. (2017). Characterization of Organic Matter in Suspended Sediments Via Pyrolysis and Oxidation (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Pilon, M. (2014, August 14). Botswana Runner Faces 2-Year Ban. New York Times, p. B13.

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