How to format your references using the Cardiovascular Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cardiovascular Pathology. 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]

Brody H. Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 2011;475:S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bhosale SV, Bhosale SV. Yoctowells as a simple model system for the encapsulation and controlled release of bioactive molecules. Sci Rep 2013;3:1982.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhao B, Moore JS, Beebe DJ. Surface-directed liquid flow inside microchannels. Science 2001;291:1023–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dausmann KH, Glos J, Ganzhorn JU, Heldmaier G. Physiology: hibernation in a tropical primate. Nature 2004;429:825–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sengupta DL, Liepa VV. Applied Electromagnetics and Electromagnetic Compatibility. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Jayakumar R, Prabaharan M, Muzzarelli RAA, editors. Chitosan for Biomaterials II. vol. 244. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yang L, Lin H, Lin Y. Sentiment Analysis Based on Chinese Thinking Modes. In: Zhou M, Zhou G, Zhao D, Liu Q, Zou L, editors. Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing: First CCF Conference, NLPCC 2012, Beijing, China, October 31-November 5, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 46–57.

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 Pathology.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Trial Shows Promise For A “Universal” Flu Vaccine. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/experiments-mice-have-shown-promise-universal-flu-vaccine/ (accessed October 30, 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. Effective Central Control Could Improve DOD’s Ammunition Logistics. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

LaPorte M. Depression and Rumination as a Predictor for Types of Substances Abused. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

Saslow L. Hofstra May Team Up To Start Medical School. New York Times 2007:14LI2.

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 Pathology
Abbreviation	Cardiovasc. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	1054-8807
Scope	General Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Pathology and Forensic Medicine