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

Muller NZ (2014) Economics. Boosting GDP growth by accounting for the environment. Science 345:873–874

A journal article with 2 authors

Evenson RE, Gollin D (2003) Assessing the impact of the green revolution, 1960 to 2000. Science 300:758–762

A journal article with 3 authors

Stone L, Olinky R, Huppert A (2007) Seasonal dynamics of recurrent epidemics. Nature 446:533–536

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jia J, Tong C, Wang B, et al (2004) Hedgehog signalling activity of Smoothened requires phosphorylation by protein kinase A and casein kinase I. Nature 432:1045–1050

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walter RJ (1998) Practical Compliance with the EPA Risk Management Program. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nathan SD (2016) Guide to Clinical Management of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Fugini M, Maggiolini P, Vallès RS (2013) Public Innovative ICT Based Employment Services Success Factors. In: Spagnoletti P (ed) Organizational Change and Information Systems: Working and Living Together in New Ways. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–49

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

O`Callaghan J (2015) Watch The Incredible Moment Philae Landed on Comet 67P. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-incredible-moment-philae-landed-comet-67p/. 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 (1996) NASA Budget: Carryover Balances for Selected Programs. 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

Chavez JA (2015) Principal stress analysis of rock fracture data from the Long Beach oil field, Los Angeles basin, California. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2006) A 1986 Case Could Aid Appeals Along Death Row. New York Times A28

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