How to format your references using the Journal of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology citation style

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

Stella N (2012) Neuroscience. Inflammation to rebuild a brain. Science 338:1303–1304

A journal article with 2 authors

Hachet O, Ephrussi A (2004) Splicing of oskar RNA in the nucleus is coupled to its cytoplasmic localization. Nature 428:959–963

A journal article with 3 authors

Theise ND, Krause DS, Sharkis S (2003) Comment on “Little evidence for developmental plasticity of adult hematopoietic stem cells.” Science 299:1317; author reply 1317

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Carter SG, Birkedal V, Wang CS, et al (2005) Quantum coherence in an optical modulator. Science 310:651–653

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Norris L (2014) Transplant Administration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Penn JS (2008) Retinal and Choroidal Angiogenesis. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Athanasiadou S, Houdijk JGM (2010) Nutrition and Immunity in Animal Disease: Lessons from Parasitic Gastroenteritis. In: Watson RR, Zibadi S, Preedy VR (eds) Dietary Components and Immune Function. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 63–74

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 Invasive and Interventional Cardiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Our ‘Rosetta Stone’ Gene Could Unlock The Secrets Of Schizophrenia. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/our-rosetta-stone-gene-could-unlock-secrets-schizophrenia/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1996) Economic Espionage: Information on Threat From U.S. Allies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reig MA (2008) Cross-Dialectal Variability in Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative and Pragmatic Study of Null Objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Kelly C (2012) Giving Conservative Films A Head Start, Right Here. New York Times A27B

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 Invasive and Interventional Cardiology
ISSN (online)	2054-1783
Scope