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]

Makous W. Comment on “Emergence of novel color vision in mice engineered to express a human cone photopigment.” Science 2007;318:196; author reply 196.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Low HH, Löwe J. A bacterial dynamin-like protein. Nature 2006;444:766–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gómez JM, Verdú M, Perfectti F. Ecological interactions are evolutionarily conserved across the entire tree of life. Nature 2010;465:918–21.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cordenonsi M, Montagner M, Adorno M, Zacchigna L, Martello G, Mamidi A, et al. Integration of TGF-beta and Ras/MAPK signaling through p53 phosphorylation. Science 2007;315:840–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Edwards DW. Risk Management in Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Delcambre L, Kop C, Mayr HC, Mylopoulos J, Pastor O, editors. Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings. vol. 3716. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rathbone M, Rathbone B. Helicobacter pylori and Gastric Cancer. In: Jankowski JAZ, editor. Inflammation and Gastrointestinal Cancers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 83–97.

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]

Fang J. Domestic Pigs Continued To Mate With Wild Boars. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/domestic-pigs-continued-mate-wild-boars/ (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. Fundamental Changes Needed To Achieve Effective Enforcement of Radio Communication Regulations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hausmann RC. Organizing Ecosystems for Social Innovation: The Relationality of Contexts and Mechanisms in a Social Entrepreneurship Network. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2015.

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]

Wagner J. Mets’ Starter Fails to Last 2 Innings, and He May Not Get to Go Any Longer. New York Times 2016:B11.

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