How to format your references using the Hellenic Journal of Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hellenic Journal of Cardiology. 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

Laming JM. Astrophysics: Lopsided stellar death. Nature. 2014;506(7488):298-299.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rice CM, Saeed M. Hepatitis C: Treatment triumphs. Nature. 2014;510(7503):43-44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackman JB, Burbridge TJ, Crair MC. Retinal waves coordinate patterned activity throughout the developing visual system. Nature. 2012;490(7419):219-225.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nel A, Xia T, Mädler L, Li N. Toxic potential of materials at the nanolevel. Science. 2006;311(5761):622-627.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kazovsky LG, Cheng N, Shaw WT, Gutierrez D, Wong SW. Broadband Optical Access Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Karagiannis D, Mayr HC, Mylopoulos J, eds. Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Park IK, Kim G. Innovation of ICT Manufacturing and Agglomeration Economies: Evolution over the Life Cycle. In: Kim E, Kim BHS, eds. Quantitative Regional Economic and Environmental Analysis for Sustainability in Korea. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives. Springer; 2016:69-87.

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 Hellenic Journal of Cardiology.

Blog post

Fang J. 3D Cancer Vaccine Recruits Infection-Fighting Cells. IFLScience. December 10, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/3d-cancer-vaccine-recruits-infection-fighting-cells/

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. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Organization Organic Act. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miller MW. The Mediterranean Ethiopian: Intellectual Discourse and the Fixity of Myth in Classical Antiquity. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Murphy MJO. ‘Sesame Street’ When It Started. New York Times. September 4, 2015:C25.

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	Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
Abbreviation	Hellenic J. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	1109-9666
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine