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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Congenital 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	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. Mervis J. 2001 BUDGET: Spending Bills Show No Sign of Surplus--Yet. Science. 2000;289:31.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Valsami-Jones E, Lynch I. NANOSAFETY. How safe are nanomaterials? Science. 2015;350:388–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Levy ED, Landry CR, Michnick SW. Cell signaling. Signaling through cooperation. Science. 2010;328:983–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nakamura D, Gunjishima I, Yamaguchi S, Ito T, Okamoto A, Kondo H, et al. Ultrahigh-quality silicon carbide single crystals. Nature. 2004;430:1009–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ghaye T. Building the Reflective Healthcare Organisation. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

1. Kim H-J, Katzenbeisser S, Ho ATS, editors. Digital Watermarking: 7th International Workshop, IWDW 2008, Busan, Korea, November 10-12, 2008. Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sui Pheng L, Rui Z. Research Methodology. In: Rui Z, editor. Service Quality for Facilities Management in Hospitals. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 65–72.

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 Congenital Cardiology.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. 1.85-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Impact Triggered Massive Volcanic Eruptions [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/185billionyearold-meteorite-impact-triggered-massive-volcanic-eruptions/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Mistake In Proposal Alleged After Award. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 May. Report No.: B-176772.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gamez Grijalva VM. Biological and physical-chemical methods for treatment of semiconductor manufacturing effluents [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2009.

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. Vecsey G. Three Derby Trainers, Each One of a Kind. New York Times. 2010 Apr 30;B12.

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 Congenital Cardiology
ISSN (online)	2056-7251
Scope