How to format your references using the Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia. 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

Toulouse G. Community groups could show Unesco the way. Nature. 2000 May 25;405(6785):394.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheppard SS, Trujillo CA. Detection of a trailing (L5) Neptune Trojan. Science. 2010 Sep 10;329(5997):1304.

A journal article with 3 authors

Springel V, Frenk CS, White SDM. The large-scale structure of the Universe. Nature. 2006 Apr 27;440(7088):1137–44.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sorrells SF, Paredes MF, Cebrian-Silla A, Sandoval K, Qi D, Kelley KW, et al. Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults. Nature. 2018 Mar 15;555(7696):377–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon MJ Jr. Total Quality Process Control for Injection Molding. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Scott-Conner CEH, editor. The SAGES Manual of Strategic Decision Making: Case Studies in Minimal Access Surgery. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. XL, 616 p. 125 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Han JM, Yi BJ. An Orbital Velocity-Based Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Surgical Robots. In: Lee S, Cho H, Yoon KJ, Lee J, editors. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12: Volume 2 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference IAS-12, held June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 37–50. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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 Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia.

Blog post

Andrew E. Keep Fidgeting, It Might Cancel Out The Negative Effects Of Prolonged Sitting. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Information Technology: Update on VA Actions to Implement Critical Reforms. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 May. Report No.: T-AIMD-00-74.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rajendran N. Assessment of upper extremity strength, power, and flexibility characteristics of college-aged male and female students [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Wagner J. Bruce Is Again Hitting Homers, and Again Not Attracting Interest. New York Times. 2017 Jul 27;B11.

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	Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia
ISSN (print)	2174-2049
Scope