How to format your references using the Journal of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology citation style

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

Zaanen J (2009) Journal club. A theoretical physicist journeys to a hairy black hole’s horizon. Nature 462:15

A journal article with 2 authors

Andrew P, Barnes WL (2004) Energy transfer across a metal film mediated by surface plasmon polaritons. Science 306:1002–1005

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinervo B, Svensson E, Comendant T (2000) Density cycles and an offspring quantity and quality game driven by natural selection. Nature 406:985–988

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rocheleau T, Ndukum T, Macklin C, et al (2010) Preparation and detection of a mechanical resonator near the ground state of motion. Nature 463:72–75

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kroupa VF (2005) Phase Lock Loops and Frequency Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Espinosa J (2005) Fuzzy Logic, Identification and Predictive Control. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Mächel H, Rudolf B, Maurer T, et al (2012) Observed Hydrological Cycle. In: Lemke P, Jacobi H-W (eds) Arctic Climate Change: The ACSYS Decade and Beyond. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 199–246

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 Invasive and Interventional Cardiology.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017) California’s San Joaquin Valley Continues To Sink. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/california-s-san-joaquin-valley-continues-to-sink/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2011) Fiscal Year 2011 Agreed-Upon Procedures for Excise Tax Distributions to the Highway Trust Fund. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pigott C (2016) School Resource Officers and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Discovering Trends of Expulsions in Public Schools. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Vecsey G (2010) Sampling the Flavors of the City’s Cup. New York Times D1

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 Invasive and Interventional Cardiology
ISSN (online)	2054-1783
Scope