How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Diabetology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardiovascular Diabetology. 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. Harmon L. Journal club. An evolutionary biologist ponders the pace of evolution. Nature. 2010;463:1003.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nagamatsu S, Ohara-Imaizumi M. Cell biology. IP7 debut in insulin release. Science. 2007;318:1249–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Paradise J, Andrews L, Holbrook T. Intellectual property. Patents on human genes: an analysis of scope and claims. Science. 2005;307:1566–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li W, Xu Z, Huang J, Lin X, Luo R, Chen C-H, et al. NeuroArray: a universal interface for patterning and interrogating neural circuitry with single cell resolution. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4784.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Grigg NS. Infrastructure Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Massi D, editor. Dermatopathology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Günay A, Yolum P. Detecting Conflicts in Commitments. In: Sakama C, Sardina S, Vasconcelos W, Winikoff M, editors. Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies IX: 9th International Workshop, DALT 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, May 3, 2011, Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 51–66.

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 Diabetology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. WATCH: Live HD streaming Of Earth From The International Space Station. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Higher Education and Disability: Education Needs a Coordinated Approach to Improve Its Assistance to Schools in Supporting Students. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Oct. Report No.: GAO-10-33.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Borisova-Kidder A. Meta-Analytical Estimates of Values of Environmental Services Enhanced by Government Agricultural Conservation Programs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2006.

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. Kennedy R, Davey M. Detroit’s Creditors Eye Its Art Collection. New York Times. 2013 Jul 20;C1.

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 Diabetology
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Diabetol.
ISSN (online)	1475-2840
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism