How to format your references using the Basic Research in Cardiology citation style

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

Gasse F (2001) Paleoclimate. Hydrological changes in Africa. Science 292:2259–2260

A journal article with 2 authors

Pevzner P, Shamir R (2009) Computing has changed biology--biology education must catch up. Science 325:541–542

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloch I I, Hansch TW, Esslinger T (2000) Measurement of the spatial coherence of a trapped Bose gas at the phase transition. Nature 403:166–170

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nguyen T, Sutton AD, Brynda M, Fettinger JC, Long GJ, Power PP (2005) Synthesis of a stable compound with fivefold bonding between two chromium(I) centers. Science 310:844–847

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smeets R, der Sluis L van, Kapetanović M, Peelo DF, Janssen A (2014) Switching in Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Calude CS, Rozenberg G, Salomaa A (2011) Rainbow of Computer Science: Dedicated to Hermann Maurer on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rana S, Pichandi S, Parveen S, Fangueiro R (2014) Biosynthetic Fibers: Production, Processing, Properties and Their Sustainability Parameters. In: Muthu SS (ed) Roadmap to Sustainable Textiles and Clothing: Eco-friendly Raw Materials, Technologies, and Processing Methods. Springer, Singapore, pp 109–138

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 Basic Research in Cardiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Watch The Antares Rocket Launch Live. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/orbital-sciences-antares-rocket-launch-cargo-iss/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1984) Report of Withholding of Budget Authority Provided for Grants for the Education of Immigrant Children. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gomes S (2010) The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act and the effects of deinstitutionalization on the mentally ill. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hauser C (2017) Secret Service Agent Under Investigation. New York Times A13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [4, 5, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Basic Research in Cardiology
Abbreviation	Basic Res. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0300-8428
ISSN (online)	1435-1803
Scope	Physiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)