How to format your references using the Cath Lab Digest citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cath Lab Digest. 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

Witten E. Unravelling string theory. Nature. 2005 December; 438(7071): 1085.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seeber L, Armbruster JG. Earthquakes as beacons of stress change. Nature. 2000 September; 407(6800): 69–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schuck C, Pernice WHP, Tang HX. Waveguide integrated low noise NbTiN nanowire single-photon detectors with milli-Hz dark count rate. Sci Rep. 2013; 3 1893.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Carlsson F, Stålhammar-Carlemalm M, Flärdh K, Sandin C, Carlemalm E, Lindahl G. Signal sequence directs localized secretion of bacterial surface proteins. Nature. 2006 August; 442(7105): 943–946.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Der Pijl P, Solomon LK, Lokitz J. How To Design a Better Business. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Schaller A (ed). Induced Plant Resistance to Herbivory. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang S, Zhang J, Peng Z, Zhan J, Wang Q. Study on Efficiency and Effectiveness of KSORD. In: Dong G, Lin X, Wang W, Yang Y, Yu JX, eds. Advances in Data and Web Management: Joint 9th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2007, and 8th International Conference, on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2007, Huang Shan, China, June 16-18, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p6–17.

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 Cath Lab Digest.

Blog post

Davis J. Alzheimer’s Drug Could Be Used To Naturally Regenerate Teeth. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/alzheimers-drug-could-be-used-to-naturally-regenerate-teeth/ (2017, 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

Government Accountability Office. Review of Selected Projects Under the Bilingual Education Program. B-164031(1)Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; February 15, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mete RJ. Can STEM initiatives be social justice oriented: An analysis of urban school reform via smaller learning communities. Doctoral DissertationUniversity of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

Saslow L. State Court Blocks Synagogue’s Expansion. New York Times, February 25, 2007, 14LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Cath Lab Digest
ISSN (print)	1073-2667
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