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

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

Mira-Perez J. Spanish university study ignores research. Nature 2000; 404: 222.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wes PD, Bargmann CI. C. elegans odour discrimination requires asymmetric diversity in olfactory neurons. Nature 2001; 410: 698–701.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang B, Xu S, Wu L. Intensified Arabian Sea tropical storms. Nature 2012; 489: E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Biondi EG, Reisinger SJ, Skerker JM, Arif M, Perchuk BS, Ryan KR, Laub MT. Regulation of the bacterial cell cycle by an integrated genetic circuit. Nature 2006; 444: 899–904.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wright D. Using Commercial Contracts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Ubiali M, Wehrle M (eds). Feeling and Value, Willing and Action: Essays in the Context of a Phenomenological Psychology. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Hammarlund-Udenaes M. Pharmacokinetic Concepts in Brain Drug Delivery. In: Hammarlund-Udenaes M, de Lange ECM, Thorne RG, editors. Drug Delivery to the Brain: Physiological Concepts, Methodologies and Approaches. New York, NY: Springer, 2014: 127–161.

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 World Journal of Cardiology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Charon Helps Pluto Keep Its Atmosphere. IFLScience. 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/charon-helps-pluto-keep-its-atmosphere/

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. Managing for Results: Observations on NASA’s Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meier MR. Exploring the effects of school calendars on student achievement. 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

Lee L. Embracing Miami’s Past And Future. New York Times. 2013; : D2.

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	World Journal of Cardiology
ISSN (online)	1949-8462
Scope