How to format your references using the Heart Asia citation style

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

Janin J. Biochemistry. Dicey assemblies. Science. 2008;319:165–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Des Marais DL, Rausher MD. Escape from adaptive conflict after duplication in an anthocyanin pathway gene. Nature. 2008;454:762–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen AJ, Mori-Sánchez P, Yang W. Insights into current limitations of density functional theory. Science. 2008;321:792–4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jeppesen C, Wong JY, Kuhl TL, et al. Impact of polymer tether length on multiple ligand-receptor bond formation. Science. 2001;293:465–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilmott P, Orrell D. The Money Formula. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017.

An edited book

Jensen FV. Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs: February 8, 2007. Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Grasso G, Iiritano S, Leone N, et al. An ASP-Based System for Team-Building in the Gioia-Tauro Seaport. In: Carro M, Peña R, eds. Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages: 12th International Symposium, PADL 2010, Madrid, Spain, January 18-19, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2010:40–2.

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 Asia.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Discover Oldest Known Muscle Tissue. IFLScience. 2014. (accessed 30 October 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. Problems and Needed Improvements in Evaluating Office of Education Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wuite J. Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Three East Antarctic Outlet Glaciers and Their Floating Ice Tongues. 2006.

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

Hodara S. On the Glass House’s Pond, Clattering Polka Dots. New York Times. 2016;CT9.

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 Asia
Abbreviation	Heart Asia
ISSN (online)	1759-1104
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine