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. Pain S. A potted history. Nature. 2015;525:S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zukor K, He Z. Regenerative medicine: drawing breath after spinal injury. Nature. 2011;475:177–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Narayan V, Ramaswamy S, Menon N. Long-lived giant number fluctuations in a swarming granular nematic. Science. 2007;317:105–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sun T, Patoine C, Abu-Khalil A, Visvader J, Sum E, Cherry TJ, et al. Early asymmetry of gene transcription in embryonic human left and right cerebral cortex. Science. 2005;308:1794–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bagdonavičius V, Julius K, Nikulin MS. Non-parametric Tests for Complete Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

1. Kelley DH. Exploring Ancient Skies: An Encyclopedic Survey of Archaeoastronomy. Milone EF, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dalla Preda M, Gabbrielli M, Guidi C, Mauro J, Montesi F. Interface-Based Service Composition with Aggregation. In: Paoli FD, Pimentel E, Zavattaro G, editors. Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: First European Conference, ESOCC 2012, Bertinoro, Italy, September 19-21, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 48–63.

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. O`Callaghan J. NASA Wants To Build A Mini Space Station Near The Moon [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-wants-to-build-a-mini-space-station-near-the-moon/

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. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Medium Range System Components Do Not Fit. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-91-2.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Edwards DH. Why Do They Get High?: An Examination of Social Bond Theory and Substance Use in College [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Feuer A, Rashbaum WK. Family Past Heightens Enigma of Judge’s Death. New York Times. 2017 Apr 13;A20.

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