How to format your references using the European Heart Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Heart Journal. 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

Parham P. Immunology. NK cells lose their inhibition. Science 2004;305:786–787.

A journal article with 2 authors

Géléoc GSG, Holt JR. Sound strategies for hearing restoration. Science 2014;344:1241062.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bai T, Pollard DD, Gao H. Explanation for fracture spacing in layered materials. Nature 2000;403:753–756.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sartori L, Camperio-Ciani A, Bulgheroni M, Castiello U. Monkey see, monkey reach: action selection of reaching movements in the macaque monkey. Sci Rep 2014;4:4019.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meghouar H. Corporate Takeover Targets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Starke K, Gaestel M, eds. Molecular Chaperones in Health and Disease. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer A, Baumgartner P, Diller M, Norrish M. Tableaux for Verification of Data-Centric Processes. In: Galmiche D, Larchey-Wendling D, eds. Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods: 22nd International Conference, TABLEAUX 2013, Nancy, France, September 16-19, 2013, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p28–43.

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 European Heart Journal.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Underwater Microscope Provides New Views Of Ocean-Floor Sea Creatures In Their Natural Setting. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/underwater-microscope-provides-new-views-of-ocean-floor-sea-creatures-in-their-natural-setting/ (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

Government Accountability Office. Reporting of Student Loan Enrollment Status

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Otarola AC. The effects of turbulence in an absorbing atmosphere on the propagation of microwave signals used in an active sounding system

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

Markoff J. After a Retirement, Putting to Bed The Times’s First Email Address. New York Times.

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	European Heart Journal
Abbreviation	Eur. Heart J.
ISSN (print)	0195-668x
ISSN (online)	1522-9645
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine