How to format your references using the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology. 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

Arns, M. (2014). Open access is tiring out peer reviewers. Nature, 515(7528), 467.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alekseev, V., & Lampert, W. (2001). Maternal control of resting-egg production in Daphnia. Nature, 414(6866), 899–901.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grottoli, A. G., Rodrigues, L. J., & Palardy, J. E. (2006). Heterotrophic plasticity and resilience in bleached corals. Nature, 440(7088), 1186–1189.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sagarin, R. D., Alcorta, C. S., Atran, S., Blumstein, D. T., Dietl, G. P., Hochberg, M. E., … Vermeij, G. J. (2010). Decentralize, adapt and cooperate. Nature, 465(7296), 292–293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malina, M. (2013). Delivering Sustainable Buildings. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ceyhan, Ö., Manin, Y. I., & Marcolli, M. (Eds.). (2010). Arithmetic and Geometry Around Quantization (Vol. 279). Boston, MA: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Bikker, J. A., & de Dreu, J. (2007). Operating costs of pension schemes. In O. Steenbeek & F. van der Lecq (Eds.), Costs and Benefits of Collective Pension Systems (pp. 51–74). 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 Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, November 19). A Bizarre Foam Blob Is Taking Over A Street In California — Here’s What’s Causing It. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-bizarre-foam-blob-is-taking-over-a-street-in-california-heres-whats-causing-it/

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. (1997). Space Station: Deteriorating Cost and Schedule Performance Under the Prime Contract (No. T-NSIAD-97-262). 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

O’Connor, C. S. (2015). Measurement of Dispersion and Attenuation in Granular Media using a Filter-Correlation Method (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

Hollander, S. (2008, August 10). Imagining a Place Where Cheers Never End. New York Times, p. CY6.

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 Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
Abbreviation	J. Interv. Card. Electrophysiol.
ISSN (print)	1383-875X
ISSN (online)	1572-8595
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)