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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Indian 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

Guan JL. Cell biology. Integrins, rafts, Rac, and Rho. Science. 2004;303(5659):773-774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson EA, Janssens IA. Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change. Nature. 2006;440(7081):165-173.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayward RC, Saville DA, Aksay IA. Electrophoretic assembly of colloidal crystals with optically tunable micropatterns. Nature. 2000;404(6773):56-59.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Miller SA, Collettini C, Chiaraluce L, Cocco M, Barchi M, Kaus BJP. Aftershocks driven by a high-pressure CO2 source at depth. Nature. 2004;427(6976):724-727.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cherian A. Energy and Global Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Rajasekaran S, ed. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: First International Conference, BICoB 2009, New Orleans, LA, USA, April 8-10, 2009. Proceedings. Vol 5462. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramocki M. DIY: The Militant Embrace of Technology. In: Adams R, Gibson S, Arisona SM, eds. Transdisciplinary Digital Art. Sound, Vision and the New Screen: Digital Art Weeks and Interactive Futures 2006/2007, Zurich, Switzerland and Victoria, BC, Canada. Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer; 2008:26-32.

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 Indian Heart Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. Rise And Shine! New Horizons Awakes Ahead Of A Date With Pluto. IFLScience. December 20, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rise-and-shine-new-horizons-awakes-ahead-date-pluto/

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. Transportation Security Information Sharing: Results of GAO’s Survey of Stakeholder Satisfaction with TSA Products and Mechanisms (GAO-12-67SP, November 2011), an E-Supplement to GAO-12-44. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Norman CL. Perceptions of Non-Traditional Programs within Missouri School Districts. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University; 2015.

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

Kelly M. Arkansas Rookie Makes Debut. New York Times. April 6, 1993:B10.

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	Indian Heart Journal
Abbreviation	Indian Heart J.
ISSN (print)	0019-4832
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine