How to format your references using the Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports. 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. RajBhandary UL. Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011). Nature. 2011;480:322.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Simons M, Eichmann A. Physiology. Lymphatics are in my veins. Science. 2013;341:622–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dehaene-Lambertz G, Dehaene S, Hertz-Pannier L. Functional neuroimaging of speech perception in infants. Science. 2002;298:2013–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mizutani K-I, Yoon K, Dang L, Tokunaga A, Gaiano N. Differential Notch signalling distinguishes neural stem cells from intermediate progenitors. Nature. 2007;449:351–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Moir I, Seabridge AG. Military Avionics Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Skopina M. Multivariate Wavelet Frames. Krivoshein A, Protasov V, editors. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. O’Connor TF, Savagatrup S, Lipomi DJ. Soft Power: Stretchable and Ultra-Flexible Energy Sources for Wearable and Implantable Devices. In: Rogers JA, Ghaffari R, Kim D-H, editors. Stretchable Bioelectronics for Medical Devices and Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 69–82.

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 Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Snorted, Injected Or Smoked? It Can Affect A Drug’s Addictiveness [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/snorted-injected-or-smoked-it-can-affect-drug-s-addictiveness/. 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. College Debit Cards: Actions Needed to Address ATM Access, Student Choice, and Transparency. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Feb. Report No.: GAO-14-91.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Webber NT. Peptide ion conformation studies and the 157 nm photofragmentation of arginine containing dipeptides [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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. Braffet K. Wonder Women in Manhattan. New York Times. 2016 Apr 17;BR12.

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	Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Cardiovasc. Risk Rep.
ISSN (print)	1932-9520
ISSN (online)	1932-9563
Scope	Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology