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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The British 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	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

Holmes N. Immunology. A splicing switch for T cells. Science 2008;321:646–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reik W, Dean W. Back to the beginning. Nature 2002;420:127.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barbot S, Lapusta N, Avouac J-P. Under the hood of the earthquake machine: toward predictive modeling of the seismic cycle. Science 2012;336:707–10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yin L, Wang J, Klein PS, Lazar MA. Nuclear receptor Rev-erbalpha is a critical lithium-sensitive component of the circadian clock. Science 2006;311:1002–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Misstear B, Banks D, Clark L. Water Wells and Boreholes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Sporre K, Mannberg J, editors. Values, Religions and Education in Changing Societies. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Fulekar MH. Bioremediation Technology for Hazardous Wastes - Recent Advances. In: Fulekar MH, editor. Bioremediation Technology: Recent Advances. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 135–66.

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 British Journal of Cardiology.

Blog post

Hale T. Here’s How To Watch The Harvest Moon Eclipse Tonight. IFLScience. 2016; https://www.iflscience.com/space/here-s-how-to-watch-the-harvest-moon-eclipse-tonight/

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. Gulf War Illnesses: Federal Research Strategy Needs Reexamination. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ghafoori HD. Working with Muslim children and families: A training program for child welfare social workers. 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

Lyman R. In Siege on Democracy, Polish Leaders Now Target Judicial System. New York Times. 2017;A10.

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 British Journal of Cardiology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0969-6113
ISSN (online)	1753-4313
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine