How to format your references using the Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. 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	Download the output style file
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

Hunter-Schaedle K. When science fails a scientist. Science. 2015;349(6252):1134.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin Y, Zhang Z. Mean first-passage time for maximal-entropy random walks in complex networks. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5365.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiong Q, Mukherjee S, Furey TS. GSAASeqSP: a toolset for gene set association analysis of RNA-Seq data. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6347.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Akimov AV, Mukherjee A, Yu CL, et al. Generation of single optical plasmons in metallic nanowires coupled to quantum dots. Nature. 2007;450(7168):402-406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peter M, Scheer C. Holzbau-Taschenbuch. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

Debled-Rennesson I, Domenjoud E, Kerautret B, Even P, eds. Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 16th IAPR International Conference, DGCI 2011, Nancy, France, April 6-8, 2011. Proceedings. Vol 6607. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Fan Y, Yin Y. Differentiated Time-Frequency Characteristics Based Real-Time Motion Decoding for Lower Extremity Rehabilitation Exoskeleton Robot. In: Su CY, Rakheja S, Liu H, eds. Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 5th International Conference, ICIRA 2012, Montreal, Canada, October 3-5, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:31-40.

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 Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases.

Blog post

Taub B. Magnetic Stimulation To The Brain Can Make You More Horny. IFLScience.

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. School Lunch Program: Buy American Procedures at Schools With Cash or Credit in Lieu of Food. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sanute PJ. What Power? A Mixed Methods Study of Nonformal Education Teacher Perceptions of Social Power. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2012.

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

Reinhart MK. Kathy Mabry and Tom Prost. New York Times. December 4, 2011:ST18.

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	Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
Abbreviation	Prog. Cardiovasc. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0033-0620
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine