How to format your references using the Cardiorenal Medicine citation style

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

Scalapino DJ. Physics. This coincidence cannot be accidental. Science. 2008 Mar;319(5869):1492–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Adkins JF, Pasquero C. Ocean science. Deep ocean overturning--then and now. Science. 2004 Nov;306(5699):1143–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Majumder A, Ghatak A, Sharma A. Microfluidic adhesion induced by subsurface microstructures. Science. 2007 Oct;318(5848):258–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Turetsky A, Kim E, Kohler RH, Miller MA, Weissleder R. Single cell imaging of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase using an irreversible inhibitor. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr;4:4782.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duffy DJ. Finite Difference Methods in Financial Engineering. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Nocedal J. Numerical Optimization. Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Pazderski D, Kozłowski KR, Krysiak B. Nonsmooth Stabilizer for Three Link Nonholonomic Manipulator Using Polar-like Coordinate Representation. In: Kozłowski KR, editor. Robot Motion and Control 2009. London: Springer; 2009; pp 35–44.

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 Cardiorenal Medicine.

Blog post

Fang J. Why Do We Age? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 May

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. Information Technology: FBI Is Taking Steps to Develop an Enterprise Architecture, but Much Remains to Be Accomplished. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sanghvi AM. Characterization of algal biomeal for applications in food. 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

Sisario B. Songkick Sells Name and Concert-Recommending Service. New York Times. 2017 Jul;B6.

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	Cardiorenal Medicine
Abbreviation	Cardiorenal Med.
ISSN (print)	1664-3828
ISSN (online)	1664-5502
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Urology