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

Werner R (2015) The focus on bibliometrics makes papers less useful. Nature 517:245

A journal article with 2 authors

List B, Yang JW (2006) Chemistry. The organic approach to asymmetric catalysis. Science 313:1584–1586

A journal article with 3 authors

McCarty KF, Nobel JA, Bartelt NC (2001) Vacancies in solids and the stability of surface morphology. Nature 412:622–625

A journal article with 5 or more authors

van Schaik CP, Ancrenaz M, Borgen G, et al (2003) Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture. Science 299:102–105

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valizadeh P (2016) Field Effect Transistors, A Comprehensive Overview. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Roth JA (2010) Gene-Based Therapies for Cancer. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Motha J (2011) Spirituality and Its Relevance for the Contemplative Educator. In: Wane NN, Manyimo EL, Ritskes EJ (eds) Spirituality, Education & Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 49–65

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

Andrew E (2014) A Christmas Comet To Be Seen From Dark Skies. In: IFLScience. 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 (1994) Overhead Costs: Unallowable Costs Charged by Rockwell Corporation, Rocketdyne Division. 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

Jobanputra MC (2002) Investigation of Organic Thin Films for Application in Electro-optic Devices. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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 (2011) Remembering Waitz, a Champion and Companion. New York Times B13

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

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