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

Abreu, A. Harnessing new scientific capacity. Science 336, 1397 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Bilham, R. & Gaur, V. Geophysics. Buildings as weapons of mass destruction. Science 341, 618–619 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

Reese, C., Heise, F. & Mayer, A. Trans-SNARE pairing can precede a hemifusion intermediate in intracellular membrane fusion. Nature 436, 410–414 (2005).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Tan, L. et al. Cyclic precipitation variation on the western Loess Plateau of China during the past four centuries. Sci. Rep. 4, 6381 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shand, M. A. The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006).

An edited book

Background and Future Prospects in Life Cycle Assessment. (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

Barreira, L. & Valls, C. Ordinary Differential Equations. in Complex Analysis and Differential Equations (ed. Valls, C.) 223–279 (Springer, London, 2012).

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

Luntz, S. How Slime Molds Make Decisions. IFLScience (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. Misuse of SBA’s 8(a) Program Increased Cost for Many ADP Equipment Acquisitions. (1981).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cross, A. Tinkering in k-12: an exploratory mixed methods study of makerspaces in schools as an application of constructivist learning. (Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 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

Lipton, E., Protess, B. & Lehren, A. W. Blue-Red Split: From Capitol To 18th Green. New York Times A1 (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