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

Squires JE. Artificial blood. Science. 2002 Feb 8;295(5557):1002–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xavier KB, Bassler BL. Interference with AI-2-mediated bacterial cell-cell communication. Nature. 2005 Sep 29;437(7059):750–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dominguez G, Wilkins G, Thiemens MH. The Soret effect and isotopic fractionation in high-temperature silicate melts. Nature. 2011 May 5;473(7345):70–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boyman O, Kovar M, Rubinstein MP, Surh CD, Sprent J. Selective stimulation of T cell subsets with antibody-cytokine immune complexes. Science. 2006 Mar 31;311(5769):1924–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cannon CM. An Executive’s Guide to Fundraising Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Schulz HD, Zabel M, editors. Marine Geochemistry. 2nd revised, updated and extended edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. XIX, 574 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Stubberud SC, Teranishi AM. Estimation for Target Tracking Using a Control Theoretic Approach – Part I. In: Swiątek J, Grzech A, Swiątek P, Tomczak JM, editors. Advances in Systems Science: Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Science 2013 (ICSS 2013). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 35–43. (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. Is Your Cat Lowering Your Grades? 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. Public Transportation: Requirements for Smaller Capital Projects Generally Seen as Less Burdensome. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Aug. Report No.: GAO-11-778.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rakusin LL. Intervening to reduce adolescent substance abuse: A grant proposal [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

Pilon M. A Sprint and Leap Into the Unknown. New York Times. 2012 Jul 22;F15.

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

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