How to format your references using the Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Weintraub K. Biomedicine: The new gold standard. Nature 2013;495:S14-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kim J, Swager TM. Control of conformational and interpolymer effects in conjugated polymers. Nature 2001;411:1030–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bradley P, Misura KMS, Baker D. Toward high-resolution de novo structure prediction for small proteins. Science 2005;309:1868–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pfleiderer C, Reznik D, Pintschovius L, Löhneysen HV, Garst M, Rosch A. Partial order in the non-Fermi-liquid phase of MnSi. Nature 2004;427:227–31.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kissell J. Mac® Security Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Parés C, Vázquez C, Coquel F, editors. Advances in Numerical Simulation in Physics and Engineering: Lecture Notes of the XV “Jacques-Louis Lions” Spanish-French School. vol. 3. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mucha H-J. Classification, Clustering, and Visualisation Based on Dual Scaling. In: Gaul W, Geyer-Schulz A, Baba Y, Okada A, editors. German-Japanese Interchange of Data Analysis Results, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 59–69.

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 Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. New Peruvian Frog Has White Splotches On Its Belly. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-peruvian-frog-has-white-splotches-its-belly/ (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. Factors Affecting Concentration in the Airline Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Slade SW. The complexity of leading in the 21st century: A case study of a successful charter school in an urban school district. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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]

Crow K. Youngest of Clarks Joins Olympic Family. New York Times 2000:D4.

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	Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine
Abbreviation	Trends Cardiovasc. Med.
ISSN (print)	1050-1738
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine