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

Arntzen CJ. Plant science. Using tobacco to treat cancer. Science 2008;321:1052–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Qaim M, Zilberman D. Yield effects of genetically modified crops in developing countries. Science 2003;299:900–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi JS, Shimomura K, Kumar V. Searching for genes underlying behavior: lessons from circadian rhythms. Science 2008;322:909–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peng J, Cao D, He Z, et al. The effect of hydration number on the interfacial transport of sodium ions. Nature 2018;557:701–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corns TN. A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Cook WD. Modeling Performance Measurement: Applications and Implementation Issues in DEA. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Quilici S, Atiama-Nurbel T, Brévault T. Plant Odors as Fruit Fly Attractants. In: Shelly T, Epsky N, Jang EB, Reyes-Flores J, Vargas R, editors. Trapping and the Detection, Control, and Regulation of Tephritid Fruit Flies: Lures, Area-Wide Programs, and Trade Implications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 119–44.

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 British Journal of Cardiology.

Blog post

Davis J. Serbian Orthodox Church Demands Museum Hands Over Ashes Of Nikola Tesla. IFLScience. 2016; https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/serbian-orthodox-church-demands-museum-hands-over-ashes-of-nikola-tesla/

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. Federal Judicial Space Follow-up. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lapizco-Encinas GC. Cooperative particle swarm optimization for combinatorial problems. 2009;

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

George R. The Taboo of Menstruation. New York Times. 2012;A19.

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