How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nature Reviews 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

Bruneau, B. G. The developmental genetics of congenital heart disease. Nature 451, 943–948 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

Shepherd, A. & Wingham, D. Recent sea-level contributions of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Science 315, 1529–1532 (2007).

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams, C. C., Jan, C. H. & Weissman, J. S. Targeting and plasticity of mitochondrial proteins revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling. Science 346, 748–751 (2014).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Goriely, A., McVean, G. A. T., Röjmyr, M., Ingemarsson, B. & Wilkie, A. O. M. Evidence for selective advantage of pathogenic FGFR2 mutations in the male germ line. Science 301, 643–646 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kriegel, J. Unfairly Labeled. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2016).

An edited book

Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes. (Springer, London, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, H., Zeng, D. & Yan, P. Data Analysis and Outbreak Detection. in Infectious Disease Informatics: Syndromic Surveillance for Public Health and BioDefense (eds. Zeng, D. & Yan, P.) 49–72 (Springer US, Boston, MA, 2010).

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 Nature Reviews Cardiology.

Blog post

Davis, J. Wet Weather May Genuinely Make Chronic Pain Worse. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/wet-weather-may-genuinely-make-chronic-pain-worse/ (2016).

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. Army Reserve Officer Education. (1993).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Springborn, T. The Importance of Teacher/Student Relationships. (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2017).

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

Sisario, B. Migos Tops Chart With ‘Culture’. New York Times C3 (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Nature Reviews Cardiology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	1759-5002
ISSN (online)	1759-5010
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine