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

Nabel GJ. Philosophy of science. The coordinates of truth. Science 2009;326:53–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ćuk M, Stewart ST. Making the Moon from a fast-spinning Earth: a giant impact followed by resonant despinning. Science 2012;338:1047–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Polanen V, Bergmann Tiest WM, Kappers AML. Target contact and exploration strategies in haptic search. Sci Rep 2014;4:6254.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fouchier RAM, Kuiken T, Schutten M, et al. Aetiology: Koch’s postulates fulfilled for SARS virus. Nature 2003;423:240.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang S-L. Raman Spectroscopy and its Application in Nanostructures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Le Bodo Y. Taxing Soda for Public Health: A Canadian Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Cooper KD, Harvey TJ, Waterman T. An Adaptive Strategy for Inline Substitution. In: Hendren L, editor. Compiler Construction: 17th International Conference, CC 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 69–84.

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. Could Civilization Survive A Nuclear Winter? IFLScience. 2016; https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-civilization-survive-a-nuclear-winter/

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. Vocational Training Contracts Awarded to Engineering Drafting School, Inc., Denver, Colorado. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stefania S. From Italian American Icon to Working Class Hero: Perspectives on Pietro di Donato’s ‘Christ in Concrete’. 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

Saslow L. Nassau County Buys Farm Development Rights. New York Times. 2007;14LI2.

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