How to format your references using the The American Journal of Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The American Journal of Cardiology. 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

1. Macilwain C. World view: Talking the talk. Nature 2010;465:867.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Thurner S, Poledna S. DebtRank-transparency: controlling systemic risk in financial networks. Sci Rep 2013;3:1888.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhao BS, Meijer G, Schöllkopf W. Quantum reflection of He2 several nanometers above a grating surface. Science 2011;331:892–894.

A journal article with 51 or more authors

1. Quan C, Liu Y-SC, Tang H, Utescher T. Miocene shift of European atmospheric circulation from trade wind to westerlies. Sci Rep 2014;4:5660.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Gadd K. TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Fisher RB, Chen-Burger Y-H, Giordano D, Hardman L, Lin F-P eds. Fish4Knowledge: Collecting and Analyzing Massive Coral Reef Fish Video Data. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Matalonga S, Rodrigues F, Travassos GH. Matching Context Aware Software Testing Design Techniques to ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119. In: Rout T, O’Connor RV, Dorling A, eds. Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 15th International Conference, SPICE 2015, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 16-17, 2015. Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015:33–44.

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 The American Journal of Cardiology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Laboratory-Grown Penises Ready To Be Tested In Humans. IFLScience 2014. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/laboratory-grown-penises-ready-be-tested-humans/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. High-Risk Series: Student Financial Aid. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Henderson MM. Coming to Terms: Career Development Experiences of NCAA Division I Female Student-Athletes in Transition. 2013.

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

1. Crow K. A Cultural Conundrum: The Chocolate Fortune Cookie. New York Times. June 1, 2003:146.

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	The American Journal of Cardiology
Abbreviation	Am. J. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0002-9149
ISSN (online)	1879-1913
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine