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]

Vohs KD. Psychology. The poor’s poor mental power. Science 2013;341:969–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Singh BP, Cowie AL. Long-term influence of biochar on native organic carbon mineralisation in a low-carbon clayey soil. Sci Rep 2014;4:3687.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Coyte KZ, Schluter J, Foster KR. The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability. Science 2015;350:663–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Johnson RA, Wright KD, Poppleton H, Mohankumar KM, Finkelstein D, Pounds SB, et al. Cross-species genomics matches driver mutations and cell compartments to model ependymoma. Nature 2010;466:632–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Aichinger M, Binder A. A Workout in Computational Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Vaamonde D, du Plessis SS, Agarwal A, editors. Exercise and Human Reproduction: Induced Fertility Disorders and Possible Therapies. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Diudea MV, Nagy CL. Counting Polynomials of Nanostructures. In: Diudea MV, Nagy CL, editors. Periodic Nanostructures, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 69–114.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Should Your Car Be Programmed To Kill You? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/the-fatal-moral-dilemma-posed-by-driverless-cars/ (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. Space Transportation: Challenges Facing NASA’s Space Launch Initiative. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Koblick DC. Parallel high-precision orbit propagation using the modified Picard-Chebyshev method. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Robinson L. The Little Battles We Must Win. New York Times 2008:WK9.

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