How to format your references using the Heart and Vessels citation style

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

Chou C-P (2014) Network robustness: detecting topological quantum phases. Sci Rep 4:7526

A journal article with 2 authors

Arlot-Bonnemains Y, Prigent C (2002) Cell cycle. A trigger for centrosome duplication. Science 295:455–456

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayashi K, Yoshida K, Matsui Y (2005) A histone H3 methyltransferase controls epigenetic events required for meiotic prophase. Nature 438:374–378

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tan W, Sun Y, Chen H, Shen S-Q (2014) Photonic simulation of topological excitations in metamaterials. Sci Rep 4:3842

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sadr A (2009) Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Azaïez M, El Fekih H, Hesthaven JS (2014) Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations - ICOSAHOM 2012: Selected papers from the ICOSAHOM conference, June 25-29, 2012, Gammarth, Tunisia. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Tang H-G, Peng T-Y (2013) Auditor Industry Specialization, Analysts Following and Financing Constrains. In: Qi E, Shen J, Dou R (eds) The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management: Engineering Economics Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–44

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 Heart and Vessels.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) Amputee Gamer Gets Bionic Arm That Has Its Own Drone. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/amputee-gamer-gets-bionic-arm-inspired-metal-gear-solid/. 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 (1996) Blue Cross FEHBP Pharmacy Benefits. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zbeeb K (2009) Transport and dispersion of fire extinguishing agents downstream from clutter elements of aircraft engine nacelles. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University

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

Shear MD, Nixon R, Liptak A (2017) Justices Cancel Hearing on Travel Ban as Questions Linger on New Policy. New York Times A12

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	Heart and Vessels
Abbreviation	Heart Vessels
ISSN (print)	0910-8327
ISSN (online)	1615-2573
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine