How to format your references using the Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2005). Scientific personalities. Nature, 433(7022), 177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hirschberg, J., & Manning, C. D. (2015). Advances in natural language processing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6245), 261–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merilä, J., Kruuk, L. E., & Sheldon, B. C. (2001). Cryptic evolution in a wild bird population. Nature, 412(6842), 76–79.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Regan, B. C., Aloni, S., Ritchie, R. O., Dahmen, U., & Zettl, A. (2004). Carbon nanotubes as nanoscale mass conveyors. Nature, 428(6986), 924–927.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bouchet, O. (2012). Wireless Optical Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Preedy, V. R., Hunter, L.-A., & Patel, V. B. (Eds.). (2013). Diet Quality: An Evidence-Based Approach, Volume 2. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakano, T., & Liu, J.-Q. (2009). Information Transfer through Calcium Signaling. In A. Schmid, S. Goel, W. Wang, V. Beiu, & S. Carrara (Eds.), Nano-Net: 4th International ICST Conference, Nano-Net 2009, Lucerne, Switzerland, October 18-20, 2009. Proceedings (pp. 29–33). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Translational Research.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2016, June 16). Ancient Asteroid Impacts Yield Evidence For The Nature Of The Early Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-asteroid-impacts-yield-evidence-for-the-nature-of-the-early-earth/

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. (1975). Improved Planning--A Must Before a Department-Wide Automatic Data Processing System Is Acquired for the Department of Agriculture (No. LCD-75-108). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Plosky, W. D. (2017). An Investment Case for Addressing Social Drivers of Structural Stigma and Discrimination Against Refugees in Resource-Poor Urban Areas (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

O’connor, J. (2016, September 13). Biking Through Badlands. New York Times, p. TR1.

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 Translational Research
Abbreviation	J. Cardiovasc. Transl. Res.
ISSN (print)	1937-5387
ISSN (online)	1937-5395
Scope	Genetics Molecular Medicine Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Genetics(clinical) Pharmaceutical Science