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

Foster V. IBI series winner. Exploring the evolution of human mate preference. Science. 2013 Nov 29;342(6162):1060–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bendor D, Wang X. The neuronal representation of pitch in primate auditory cortex. Nature. 2005 Aug 25;436(7054):1161–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hong Y, Wang Z, Jin X. Sulfuric acid intercalated graphite oxide for graphene preparation. Sci Rep. 2013 Dec 6;3:3439.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ingicco T, van den Bergh GD, Jago-On C, Bahain JJ, Chacón MG, Amano N, et al. Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago. Nature. 2018 May;557(7704):233–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pepper G, Oliver MJ. The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Koziel S. Simulation-Driven Design by Knowledge-Based Response Correction Techniques. Leifsson L, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XI, 262 p. 167 illus., 93 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

vanVliet PCJ, Hendrix PF. Role of Fauna in Soil Physical Processes. In: Abbott LK, Murphy DV, editors. Soil Biological Fertility: A Key to Sustainable Land Use in Agriculture. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2004. p. 61–80.

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

Davis J. Scientists Have Developed A Patch That Regenerates Damaged Heart Tissue [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-develop-patch-which-may-regenerate-damaged-heart-tissue/

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. The First Step Toward Reform. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jan. Report No.: 147980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Davis M. Opprobrious Identities: The Enslaving Effect of Black Respectability on Queer Black Men [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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

Grynbaum MM, Kelly K. Ousted Federal Prosecutor, a Trump Critic, Will Join CNN as an Analyst. New York Times. 2017 Sep 21;B4.

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