How to format your references using the American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Vinson VJ. Proteins in motion. Introduction. Science. 2009;324:197.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Tremaroli V, Bäckhed F. Functional interactions between the gut microbiota and host metabolism. Nature. 2012;489:242–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kirchner JW, Feng X, Neal C. Fractal stream chemistry and its implications for contaminant transport in catchments. Nature. 2000;403:524–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Matsumoto A, Yamafuji M, Tachibana T, Nakabeppu Y, Noda M, Nakaya H. Oral “hydrogen water” induces neuroprotective ghrelin secretion in mice. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3273.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bma. Everyday Medical Ethics and Law. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Eberhard A, Hadjisavvas N, Luc DT, editors. Generalized Convexity, Generalized Monotonicity and Applications: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Generalized Convexity and Generalized Monotonicity. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schleicher S, Rastetter A, La Magna R, Schönbrunner A, Haberbosch N, Knippers J. Form-Finding and Design Potentials of Bending-Active Plate Structures. In: Thomsen MR, Tamke M, Gengnagel C, Faircloth B, Scheurer F, editors. Modelling Behaviour: Design Modelling Symposium 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 53–63.

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 American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Move Over Milky Way, Elliptical Galaxies Are The Most Habitable In The Cosmos [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/move-over-milky-way-elliptical-galaxies-are-most-habitable-cosmos/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 Station: Status of Efforts to Determine Commercial Potential. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Jun. Report No.: NSIAD-99-153R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sarkissian LN. An examination of course-level factors contributing to student success [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Vecsey G. The Highest Payroll, but Still Short a Run. New York Times. 2009 Oct 23;B10.

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	American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs
Abbreviation	Am. J. Cardiovasc. Drugs
ISSN (print)	1175-3277
ISSN (online)	1179-187X
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pharmacology (medical)