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

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

Hahn R. Ronald Harry Coase (1910-2013). Nature 2013;502:449.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Boltasseva A, Atwater HA. Materials science. Low-loss plasmonic metamaterials. Science 2011;331:290–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Duckworth RA, Belloni V, Anderson SR. Evolutionary ecology. Cycles of species replacement emerge from locally induced maternal effects on offspring behavior in a passerine bird. Science 2015;347:875–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hoffmann A, Levchenko A, Scott ML, Baltimore D. The IkappaB-NF-kappaB signaling module: temporal control and selective gene activation. Science 2002;298:1241–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Morris M. Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Xing H. M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake. vol. 123. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

McFarland EG. Indications and Evidence for CTC. In: Cash BD, editor. Colorectal Cancer Screening and Computerized Tomographic Colonography: A Comprehensive Overview, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 59–72.

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 Cardiology Cases.

Blog post

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Andrew D. World Set For Hottest Year On Record: World Meteorological Organization. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/world-set-for-hottest-year-on-record-world-meteorological-organization/ (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. Survey of the Pricing of a NASA Contract with Eldec Corporation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pavuluri VK. Field Oriented Control of Induction Motors Based on DSP Controller. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Rebels Avenge A Leader’s Death. New York Times 2002:A6.

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 Cardiology Cases
Abbreviation	J. Cardiol. Cases
ISSN (print)	1878-5409
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine