How to format your references using the Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. 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]

Blakely RD. Neurobiology. Dopamine’s reversal of fortune. Science 2001;293:2407–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kahane G, Shackel N. Do abnormal responses show utilitarian bias? Nature 2008;452:E5; author reply E5-6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lu K, Lu L, Suresh S. Strengthening materials by engineering coherent internal boundaries at the nanoscale. Science 2009;324:349–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Vaillancourt FH, Yeh E, Vosburg DA, O’Connor SE, Walsh CT. Cryptic chlorination by a non-haem iron enzyme during cyclopropyl amino acid biosynthesis. Nature 2005;436:1191–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Taylor CJ, Young PC, Chotai A. True Digital Control. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Niinemets Ü, Monson RK, editors. Biology, Controls and Models of Tree Volatile Organic Compound Emissions. vol. 5. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Liu Y, Veksler O, Juan O. Simulating Classic Mosaics with Graph Cuts. In: Yuille AL, Zhu S-C, Cremers D, Wang Y, editors. Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6th International Conference, EMMCVPR 2007, Ezhou, China, August 27-29, 2007. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 55–70.

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 Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Antidepressants May Not Be As Effective As We Thought, And Shouldn’t Be The Only Treatment For Depression. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antidepressants-may-not-be-effective-we-thought-and-shouldn-t-be-only-treatment/ (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. Improvements Needed in General Automated Data Processing Controls at the National Finance Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bristow LW. There is an old woman: The final stage of individuation. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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

[1]

Billard M. Pop Up, Jump Under. New York Times 2010:E4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine
Abbreviation	Trends Cardiovasc. Med.
ISSN (print)	1050-1738
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine