How to format your references using the CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology. 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. Rodriguez I. Neurobiology: To care or not to care. Nature. 2014;509:294–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Farrant M, Cull-Candy SG. Neuroscience. AMPA receptors--another twist? Science. 2010;327:1463–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Goldman SA, Nedergaard M, Windrem MS. Glial progenitor cell-based treatment and modeling of neurological disease. Science. 2012;338:491–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Galli C, Lagutina I, Crotti G, Colleoni S, Turini P, Ponderato N, et al. Pregnancy: a cloned horse born to its dam twin. Nature. 2003;424:635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hoppert M. Microscopic Techniques in Biotechnology. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Gioeli D, editor. Targeted Therapies: Mechanisms of Resistance. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chitchyan R, Fabry J, Katz S, Rensink A. Editorial for Special Section on Dependencies and Interactions with Aspects. In: Rashid A, Ossher H, editors. Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development V. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 133–4.

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 CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. The Hunt For Meteorites In Antarctica Is Extended For The Next Decade. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Distance Education: Challenges for Minority Serving Institutions and Implications for Federal Education Policy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Oct. Report No.: GAO-04-78T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Milliken DE. Blood pressure measurement in the primary care provider setting: A project evaluating the blood pressure technique of nursing staff [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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. Kishkovsky S. With Orthodoxy’s Revival in Russia, Religious Media Also Rise. New York Times. 2008 Dec 25;B8.

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	CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Radiol.
ISSN (print)	0174-1551
ISSN (online)	1432-086X
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging