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. Wadman M. Treatment: When less is more. Nature. 2015;528:S126-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ikehara T, Kataoka T. Relation between the helical twist and S-shaped cross section of the lamellar crystals of polyethylene. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1444.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jeffrey JL, Terrett JA, MacMillan DWC. O-H hydrogen bonding promotes H-atom transfer from α C-H bonds for C-alkylation of alcohols. Science. 2015;349:1532–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kawakatsu H, Kumar P, Takei Y, Shinohara M, Kanazawa T, Araki E, et al. Seismic evidence for sharp lithosphere-asthenosphere boundaries of oceanic plates. Science. 2009;324:499–502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kanel GC. Pathology of Liver Diseases. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Helekar SA, editor. Animal Models of Speech and Language Disorders. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mehta CR. Sample Size Reestimation for Confirmatory Clinical Trials. In: Harrington D, editor. Designs for Clinical Trials: Perspectives on Current Issues. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 81–108.

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. Fang J. Ancient Mammal-Like Reptiles Sprouted Whiskers. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Space Shuttle Accident: NASA’s Actions To Address the Presidential Commission Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Oct. Report No.: NSIAD-88-30BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nolan SA. Ecopoetry and ecocentrism: The poetics of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Brantley B. Summoning the Dead With Sacred Coca-Cola. New York Times. 2017 Oct 13;C1.

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