How to format your references using the Journal of the Saudi Heart Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Saudi Heart Association. 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]

Kasahara J. Geophysics. Tides, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Science 2002;297:348–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ganel T, Goodale MA. Visual control of action but not perception requires analytical processing of object shape. Nature 2003;426:664–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lavine M, Frisk M, Pennisi E. Biomaterials. Introduction. Science 2012;338:899.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Sakatani T, Kaneda A, Iacobuzio-Donahue CA, Carter MG, de Boom Witzel S, Okano H, et al. Loss of imprinting of Igf2 alters intestinal maturation and tumorigenesis in mice. Science 2005;307:1976–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rosier JA, Martens MA, Thomas JR. Global New Drug Development. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Fränti P, Brown G, Loog M, Escolano F, Pelillo M, editors. Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition: Joint IAPR International Workshop, S+SSPR 2014, Joensuu, Finland, August 20-22, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 8621. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hraška V, Murín P. Septal Defects. In: Murín P, editor. Surgical Management of Congenital Heart Disease II: Single Ventricle and Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Aortic Arch Anomalies Septal Defects and Anomalies in Pulmonary Venous Return Anomalies of Thoracic Arteries and Veins A Video Manual, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 139–241.

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 the Saudi Heart Association.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Sexual Antagonism Helped Flies Beat DDT. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sexual-antagonism-helped-flies-beat-ddt/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Space Shuttle: The Future of the Vandenberg Launch Site Needs to Be Determined. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Joseph WR. Physical Characterization of Vernix Caseosa: Implications for Biological Function. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2002.

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]

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2017:MM22.

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 the Saudi Heart Association
Abbreviation	J. Saudi Heart Assoc.
ISSN (print)	1016-7315
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine