How to format your references using the Journal of Congenital Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Congenital Cardiology. 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

1. Cyranoski D. Marie Curie doesn’t live here, Japanese women say. Nature. 2002;419:768.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ramos SBV, Laederach A. Molecular biology: A second layer of information in RNA. Nature. 2014;505:621–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Baker PJ, Harris S, Webbon CC. Effect of British hunting ban on fox numbers. Nature. 2002;419:34.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Abzhanov A, Protas M, Grant BR, Grant PR, Tabin CJ. Bmp4 and morphological variation of beaks in Darwin’s finches. Science. 2004;305:1462–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Feyel P. Loop-shaping Robust Control. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Ponce-Cruz P. Fuzzy Logic Type 1 and Type 2 Based on LabVIEW^TM FPGA. Molina A, MacCleery B, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Farhangian M, Purvis M, Purvis M, Savarimuthu TBR. The Effects of Temperament and Team Formation Mechanism on Collaborative Learning of Knowledge and Skill in Short-Term Projects. In: Koch F, Guttmann C, Busquets D, editors. Advances in Social Computing and Multiagent Systems: 6th International Workshop on Collaborative Agents Research and Development, CARE 2015 and Second International Workshop on Multiagent Foundations of Social Computing, MFSC 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, May 4, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 48–65.

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 Congenital Cardiology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Paleontologists Discover Treasure Trove of Fossils at New Burgess Shale Site [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/paleontologists-discover-treasure-trove-fossils-new-burgess-shale-site/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. International Aviation: Better Data on Code-Sharing Needed by DOT for Monitoring and Decisionmaking. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 May. Report No.: T-RCED-95-170.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Shamloo Aliabadi E. The effect of distortion on trajectory of diesel Particulate Matters (PM) from mobile sources [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

1. Crow K. Sitter Wanted: Must Supply Nuts. New York Times. 2001 Aug 26;144.

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 Congenital Cardiology
ISSN (online)	2056-7251
Scope