How to format your references using the Heart Rhythm citation style

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

Smaglik P: Northern England: rising star. Nature 2003; 425:430–433.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Loosdrecht MCM, Brdjanovic D: Water treatment. Anticipating the next century of wastewater treatment. Science 2014; 344:1452–1453.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bosmans F, Martin-Eauclaire M-F, Swartz KJ: Deconstructing voltage sensor function and pharmacology in sodium channels. Nature 2008; 456:202–208.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gohle C, Udem T, Herrmann M, et al.: A frequency comb in the extreme ultraviolet. Nature 2005; 436:234–237.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El Hami A, Radi B: Uncertainty and Optimization in Structural Mechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013,.

An edited book

Yadav SS, McNeil DL, Stevenson PC, editors: Lentil: An Ancient Crop for Modern Times. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007,.

A chapter in an edited book

Jain A, Pietrzak K: Parallel Repetition for Leakage Resilience Amplification Revisited. In Ishai Y, ed: Theory of Cryptography: 8th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2011, Providence, RI, USA, March 28-30, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011, pp. 58–69.

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 Rhythm.

Blog post

Hale T: There’s A New Way For Crooks To Get Your Card Details From An ATM [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30],. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/theres-a-new-way-for-crooks-to-get-your-card-details-from-an-atm/

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: Freight Railroads: Updated Information on Rates and Other Industry Trends. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007 Oct. Report No.: GAO-08-218T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zazworsky LM: Dumbing down for others: Differences in socially motivated underachievement between working and middle class students [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach, 2013,.

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

Vecsey G: Sampling the Flavors of the City’s Cup. New York Times 2010 Jun 14;D1.

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	Heart Rhythm
Abbreviation	Heart Rhythm
ISSN (print)	1547-5271
ISSN (online)	1556-3871
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)