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

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

[1]

S. Hoffman, Save the children, Nature 430 (2004) 940–941.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Müller, C.W. Müller, Structural biology: Enzyme-chromatin complex visualized, Nature 514 (2014) 572–573.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.T. Deller, M. Bailes, S.J. Tingay, Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B, Science 323 (2009) 1327–1329.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.B. Jones, A. Gordus, J.A. Krall, G. MacBeath, A quantitative protein interaction network for the ErbB receptors using protein microarrays, Nature 439 (2006) 168–174.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Wallgren, B. Wallgren, Register-Based Statistics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

N. Bartels, ed., Applied Linguistics and Language Teacher Education, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.-H. Chang, J. Curran, Y.-K. Hsu, C.-C. Hsu, Do Chinese Students Waffle in Their Apologies?: An Exploration into EFL Learners’ Emails, in: Y.-S. Chen, D.-H.V. Rau, G. Rau (Eds.), Email Discourse Among Chinese Using English as a Lingua Franca, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 61–90.

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 International Journal of Cardiology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, 13-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Scientist to Achieve Nuclear Fusion, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/13-year-old-becomes-youngest-scientist-achieve-nuclear-fusion/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, NASA ADP Procurement: Contracting and Market Share Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Cao, Mathematical Modeling of Long-Term Productivity of Hydraulic- and HEG- Fractured Wells in Ultra-Low Permeability Reservoirs, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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

[1]

M. LaFORGIA, Delaying Repairs on Decrepit Tracks, New York Times (2017) A1.

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	International Journal of Cardiology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0167-5273
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine