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

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

Mysak LA. Oceanography. Patterns of Arctic circulation. Science 2001;293:1269–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mitra PP, Stark JB. Nonlinear limits to the information capacity of optical fibre communications. Nature 2001;411:1027–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang X, Wang Y, Li M. Selecting water-alcohol mixed solvent for synthesis of polydopamine nano-spheres using solubility parameter. Sci Rep 2014;4:6070.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chipuk JE, Kuwana T, Bouchier-Hayes L, et al. Direct activation of Bax by p53 mediates mitochondrial membrane permeabilization and apoptosis. Science 2004;303:1010–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Micouin P. Model-Based Systems Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Wang X, Tsai JJ-H, editors. Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Purcell JE, Clarkin E, Doyle TK. Foods of Velella velella (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) in algal rafts and its distribution in Irish seas. In: Purcell J, Mianzan H, Frost JR, editors. Jellyfish Blooms IV: Interactions with humans and fisheries. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 47–55.

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 The British Journal of Cardiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Starving Cancer Cells Of Sugar Could Be The Key To Future Treatment. IFLScience. 2015; https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/starving-cancer-cells-sugar-could-be-key-future-treatment/

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. Reuse of Municipal Wastewater and Development of New Technology: Emphasis and Direction Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sweeney DL. Learning in human -dolphin interactions at zoological facilities. 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

Greenhouse L. Court Opens Campaign Law to Challenges. New York Times. 2006;A16.

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	The British Journal of Cardiology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	0969-6113
ISSN (online)	1753-4313
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine