How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics. 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. Omelon S. Graduate journal: from biochemist to engineer. Nature. 2004;427:180.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fong YW, Zhou Q. Stimulatory effect of splicing factors on transcriptional elongation. Nature. 2001;414:929–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Clevers H, Loh KM, Nusse R. Stem cell signaling. An integral program for tissue renewal and regeneration: Wnt signaling and stem cell control. Science. 2014;346:1248012.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Shan C-J, Cheng W-W, Liu J-B, Cheng Y-S, Liu T-K. Scaling of geometric quantum discord close to a topological phase transition. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Thiselton AC. 1 & 2 Thessalonians: Through the Centuries. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

1. Hofmann DWM, Kuleshova LN, editors. Data Mining in Crystallography. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Doumit S, Minai A. Exploration for Agents with Different Personalities in Unknown Environments. In: Minai AA, Braha D, Bar-Yam Y, editors. Unifying Themes in Complex Systems VII: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Complex Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 44–53.

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 Intervention and Therapeutics.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Get Ready For The Dazzling Perseid Meteors In August [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/get-ready-for-the-dazzling-perseid-meteors-in-august/. 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. Information Technology: Library of Congress Needs to Implement Recommendations to Address Management Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Dec. Report No.: GAO-16-197T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Locicero LM. The Effects of Vertical Casting Position in Reinforced Concrete [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2014.

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. Hager EB, Mazzetti M. Emirates Secretly Sends Colombian Mercenaries to Yemen Fight. New York Times. 2015 Nov 26;A1.

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 Intervention and Therapeutics
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Interv. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1868-4300
ISSN (online)	1868-4297
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging