How to format your references using the Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease citation style

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

Montesi, L.G.J. Planetary Science. Solving the Mascon Mystery. Science 2013, 340, 1535–1536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lund, S.T.; Bohlmann, J. The Molecular Basis for Wine Grape Quality--a Volatile Subject. Science 2006, 311, 804–805.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paige, J.S.; Wu, K.Y.; Jaffrey, S.R. RNA Mimics of Green Fluorescent Protein. Science 2011, 333, 642–646.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Okita, K.; Nakagawa, M.; Hyenjong, H.; Ichisaka, T.; Yamanaka, S. Generation of Mouse Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells without Viral Vectors. Science 2008, 322, 949–953.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster, M.C. Buying and Selling Laboratory Instruments; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9780470615935.

An edited book

Jiang, X. Android Malware; Zhou, Y., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Computer Science; Springer: New York, NY, 2013; ISBN 9781461473930.

A chapter in an edited book

Titov, D.V.; Piccioni, G.; Drossart, P.; Markiewicz, W.J. Radiative Energy Balance in the Venus Atmosphere. In Towards Understanding the Climate of Venus: Applications of Terrestrial Models to Our Sister Planet; Bengtsson, L., Bonnet, R.-M., Grinspoon, D., Koumoutsaris, S., Lebonnois, S., Titov, D., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2013; pp. 23–53 ISBN 9781461450634.

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 Cardiovascular Development and Disease.

Blog post

Andrew, D. World War I To The Age Of The Cyborg: The Surprising History Of Prosthetic Limbs Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/world-war-i-to-the-age-of-the-cyborg-the-surprising-history-of-prosthetic-limbs/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Air Traffic Control: Timely Completion of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System Software Is at Risk; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCarroll, M.L. Exercise and Airway Clearing Devices in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University: Columbus, OH, 2005.

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

Branch, J. Even in a Dog Doping Scandal, a Cry of Sabotage. New York Times 2017, B11.

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 Cardiovascular Development and Disease
Abbreviation	J. Cardiovasc. Dev. Dis.
ISSN (online)	2308-3425
Scope