How to format your references using the Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology citation style

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

Stewart, M. (2009). Cell biology. Nuclear export of small RNAs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5957), 1195–1196.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dekkers, M. P. J., & Barde, Y.-A. (2013). Developmental biology. Programmed cell death in neuronal development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6128), 39–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ziegler, A. D., Fox, J. M., & Xu, J. (2009). Agriculture. The rubber juggernaut. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5930), 1024–1025.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wolkers, M. C., Brouwenstijn, N., Bakker, A. H., Toebes, M., & Schumacher, T. N. M. (2004). Antigen bias in T cell cross-priming. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5675), 1314–1317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells, J. T. (2017). Corporate Fraud Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Banasiak, J. (2006). Perturbations of Positive Semigroups with Applications. (L. Arlotti, Ed.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Dolev, S., Garay, J., Gilboa, N., Kolesnikov, V., & Yuditsky, Y. (2013). Towards Efficient Private Distributed Computation on Unbounded Input Streams. In M. Jacobson, M. Locasto, P. Mohassel, & R. Safavi-Naini (Eds.), Applied Cryptography and Network Security: 11th International Conference, ACNS 2013, Banff, AB, Canada, June 25-28, 2013. Proceedings (pp. 69–83). 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 Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, June 20). North Korea Claim to Have Cured AIDS, MERS, Ebola and SARS. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1991). NASA Procurement: Management Oversight of Contract Costs and Time Changes Could Be Enhanced (No. NSIAD-91-259). 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

Arnold, D. M. (2017). An Examination of Job Satisfaction Among Full-Time Faculty in a Selected Mississippi Community College (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Wilson, M. (2017, August 28). In Pursuit of Influence (and Muggers): Farrell’s 42 Years in Politics. New York Times, p. A21.

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 Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
Abbreviation	J. Interv. Card. Electrophysiol.
ISSN (print)	1383-875X
ISSN (online)	1572-8595
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Physiology (medical)