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

Hartzell HC. Cell biology. The stress of relaxation. Science. 2007 Sep 7;317(5843):1331–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eberly JH, Yu T. Physics. The end of an entanglement. Science. 2007 Apr 27;316(5824):555–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen J, Rau A, Brüning K. Climate change. Bridging the Montreal-Kyoto gap. Science. 2009 Nov 13;326(5955):940–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fang J, Liu B, Zhao Y, Zhang X. Two-dimensional high efficiency thin-film silicon solar cells with a lateral light trapping architecture. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug 22;4:6169.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szeman I, O’Brien S. Popular Culture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Hei XJ, Cheung L, editors. Access Networks: 4th International Conference, AccessNets 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 1-3, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XIII, 277 p. 134 illus. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; vol. 37).

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao YX, Wang SY, Uria LC, Mishra SK. A Derivative for Semipreinvex Functions and Its Applications in Semipreinvex Programming. In: Mishra SK, editor. Topics in Nonconvex Optimization: Theory and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 79–86. (Springer Optimization and Its Applications).

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. Is the Universe Ringing Like a Bell? 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. NASA: Implementing a Knowledge-Based Acquisition Framework Could Lead to Better Investment Decisions and Project Outcomes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Dec. Report No.: GAO-06-218.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boyd JL. Interactive simulations: Improving learning retention in knowledge-based online training courses [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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

Wagner J. Battered but Persevering, Mets Reach the Threshold of the Postseason. New York Times. 2016 Oct 1;D2.

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