How to format your references using the Journal of the Saudi Heart Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Saudi Heart Association. 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]

Gregersen PK. Genetics. A genomic road map for complex human disease. Science 2014;343:1087–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rieseberg LH, Livingstone K. Evolution. Chromosomal speciation in primates. Science 2003;300:267–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bruins HJ, van der Plicht J, Mazar A. 14C dates from Tel Rehov: Iron-Age chronology, pharaohs, and Hebrew kings. Science 2003;300:315–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Trivedi DK, Bhatt H, Pal RK, Tuteja R, Garg B, Johri AK, et al. Structure of RNA-interacting cyclophilin A-like protein from Piriformospora indica that provides salinity-stress tolerance in plants. Sci Rep 2013;3:3001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Canham J, Bennett J. Mentorship in Community Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Hervás R, Lee S, Nugent C, Bravo J, editors. Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Personalisation and User Adapted Services: 8th International Conference, UCAmI 2014, Belfast, UK, December 2-5, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 8867. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhang B, Zhang L. Multi-modal and Multi-granular Learning. In: Zhou Z-H, Li H, Yang Q, editors. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 11th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2007, Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 9–10.

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 the Saudi Heart Association.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. The Up Side Of Feeling Down: New Theory Links Neurotic Thinking To Creativity. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/side-feeling-down-new-theory-links-neurotic-thinking-creativity/ (accessed October 30, 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. Cloud-Seeding Activities Carried Out in the United States Under Programs Supported by the Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Szurley JC. The use of edge detection techniques to analyze thoracoabdominal movement and infer breathing volume. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Pilon M. For Men, Sport’s Stigma Dampens Appeal. New York Times 2012:SP7.

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 the Saudi Heart Association
Abbreviation	J. Saudi Heart Assoc.
ISSN (print)	1016-7315
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine