How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Gupta S. A victim of truth. Nature. 2000;407:677.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jansen M, Letschert HP. Inorganic yellow-red pigments without toxic metals. Nature. 2000;404:980–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mayya A, Banerjee A, Rajesh R. Mammalian cortical bone in tension is non-Haversian. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2533.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yuan Y, Wang X, Mei B, Zhang D, Tang A, An L, et al. Labeling thiols on proteins, living cells, and tissues with enhanced emission induced by FRET. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3523.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Crichton RR, Ward RJ. Metal-based Neurodegeneration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Saha MM. Fault Location on Power Networks. Izykowski J, Rosolowski E, editors. London: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Douglas K, Poletti A. The Riot Grrrl Epistolarium. In: Poletti A, editor. Life Narratives and Youth Culture: Representation, Agency and Participation. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 121–48.

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 Drugs and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Antimicrobial Material Could Help 3D-Printed Body Parts Resist Infection [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antimicrobial-material-could-help-3d-printed-body-parts-resist-infection/. 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. Costs and Uses of Remote Sensing Satellites. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Mar. Report No.: RCED-83-111.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Allard L. Exposure to Low-Level Ionizing Radiation and Risk of Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Participants of the Fernald Medical Monitoring Program [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 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. Nechepurenko I. Kremlin Group Viewed As a Propaganda Mill. New York Times. 2017 Apr 20;A11.

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 Drugs and Therapy
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Drugs Ther.
ISSN (print)	0920-3206
ISSN (online)	1573-7241
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology