How to format your references using the Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia. 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

Ramirez A. The making of a science evangelist. Science. 2015 May 8;348(6235):726.

A journal article with 2 authors

Park E, Rapoport TA. Preserving the membrane barrier for small molecules during bacterial protein translocation. Nature. 2011 May 12;473(7346):239–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Z, Huang X, Lu H. Association between red blood cell transfusion and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 11;4:4340.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Seiffert ER, Perry JMG, Simons EL, Boyer DM. Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates. Nature. 2009 Oct 22;461(7267):1118–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donald IW. Waste Immobilization in Glass and Ceramic Based Hosts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Oraguzie NC, Rikkerink EHA, Gardiner SE, Silva HND, editors. Association Mapping in Plants. New York, NY: Springer; 2007. XIV, 278 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Voyiadjis GZ, Woelke P. Elasto-Plastic Geometrically Non-linear Finite Element Analysis of Thick Plates and Shells. In: Woelke P, editor. Elasto-Plastic and Damage Analysis of Plates and Shells. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 91–117.

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 Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia.

Blog post

Hale T. Watch Monster Magnetic Putty Devour Metal Objects. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. IT Dashboard: Agencies Are Managing Investment Risk, but Related Ratings Need to Be More Accurate and Available. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Dec. Report No.: GAO-14-64.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sundell M. From fine art to fashion: Man Ray’s ambivalent avant-garde [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 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

Ember S. An Era’s End. New York Times. 2017 Sep 18;B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia
ISSN (print)	2174-2049
Scope