How to format your references using the Journal of Arrhythmia citation style

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

[1]

Schenkel R. Science policy. The challenge of feeding scientific advice into policy-making. Science 2010;330:1749–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shintani T, Klionsky DJ. Autophagy in health and disease: a double-edged sword. Science 2004;306:990–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hempson GP, Archibald S, Bond WJ. A continent-wide assessment of the form and intensity of large mammal herbivory in Africa. Science 2015;350:1056–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Saikawa Y, Hashimoto K, Nakata M, Yoshihara M, Nagai K, Ida M, et al. Pigment chemistry: the red sweat of the hippopotamus. Nature 2004;429:363.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pelz G. Mechatronic Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Silva L, Figueiredo E, editors. Shaping Rural Areas in Europe: Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future. vol. 107. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lekkas T. Legal Pirates Ltd: Home Computing Cultures in Early 1980s Greece. In: Alberts G, Oldenziel R, editors. Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes, London: Springer; 2014, p. 73–103.

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 Journal of Arrhythmia.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Robotic Fish Moves Like A Real Fish. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-robotic-fish-moves-real-fish/ (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. Federal Communications Commission: Implementation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Salters DD. The effects of independent reading on the reading comprehension skills of sixth-grade students. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2008.

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]

Baker AL. Murder Charge for Officer In Bronx Woman’s Death. New York Times 2017:A18.

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	Journal of Arrhythmia
Abbreviation	J. Arrhythm.
ISSN (print)	1880-4276
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine