How to format your references using the Netherlands Heart Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Netherlands Heart Journal. 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. Macilwain C. World view: Wild goose chase. Nature. 2010;463:291.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Begbie J, Graham A. Integration between the epibranchial placodes and the hindbrain. Science. 2001;294:595–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rohatgi R, Milenkovic L, Scott MP. Patched1 regulates hedgehog signaling at the primary cilium. Science. 2007;317:372–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang K, Guo J, Ge Z, Zhang J. Nanosecond pulsed electric fields (nsPEFs) regulate phenotypes of chondrocytes through Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5836.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Tostmann K-H. Korrosion. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Reis R, Cao Y, Wirth G, editors. Circuit Design for Reliability. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kalinina O, Thumm U, Lewandowski I. Miscanthus-Complemented Grassland in Europe: Additional Source of Biomass for Bioenergy. In: Barth S, Murphy-Bokern D, Kalinina O, Taylor G, Jones M, editors. Perennial Biomass Crops for a Resource-Constrained World. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 51–63.

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 Netherlands Heart Journal.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Overthinking Could Be Driving Creativity In People With Neurotic Disorders [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/overthinking-could-be-driving-creativity-people-neurotic-disorders/

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. National Science Foundation Management Review of Research Grant Award Recommendations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Aug. Report No.: PAD-82-49.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bible PW. Integrating Heterogeneous Datasets for Functional Profiling of Transcription Factors and Their Target Genes [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2013.

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. Gustines GG. Giving Archie a Makeover at 74. New York Times. 2015 Jul 12;AR3.

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	Netherlands Heart Journal
Abbreviation	Neth. Heart J.
ISSN (print)	1568-5888
ISSN (online)	1876-6250
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine