Get your Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions paper right the first time: a ready-made structure with the right abstract and citations, so editors see your science, not formatting slips.
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Authored by Sumalatha Gangadhar | Published on 3 August, 2026
Submitting to Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions goes smoothly when your draft already matches the journal's own rules. Editors screen new manuscripts against the Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions guide for authors before peer review, so formatting, structure, and required statements should be right on the first draft rather than repaired during upload. This template sets that structure up for you.
It is a manuscript shell aligned to Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions. It covers front matter, the abstract the journal expects, a body organized to the journal's article types, and a reference list in the journal's required style. Confirm current scope and article types on the Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions journal page before you draft.
Prepare the title, authors, affiliations, and ORCID iDs. Write the abstract to the journal's rule and word limit, organize the body to the article type, and apply the required reference style from the first citation. Complete every declaration (ethics, competing interests, funding, data availability) the Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions guide for authors lists, and cite figures and tables in order.
The common failure modes are formatting or reference style that does not match the guide for authors, missing required statements, and an incomplete portal checklist. Clear all three against the Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions guide for authors before you submit.
The shell mirrors what editorial staff check first: article-type fit, the abstract rules, required declarations, and the journal's reference style. For more detail see the author resources. When your draft is ready, upload it through the journal's submission system.
| Element | Circ Cardiovasc Interv requirement |
|---|---|
| Abstract | Original Research Articles: Structured abstract of ≤300 words with four mandatory sections: (1) Background - description of the rationale for the study; (2) Methods - brief description of methods; (3) Results - presentation of significant results; (4) Conclusions - interpretation and significance of the observations, emphasizing new information. Clinical trial registration information should be included at the end of the abstract when applicable. Contemporary Reviews in Interventional Cardiology: Unstructured abstract of no more than 200 words. Research Letters: No abstract specified (article must not exceed 800 words total). Case Reports and Images in Interventional Cardiology: No abstract specified (article must not exceed 1,000 words total) |
| Main text | Original Research Articles: Maximum ≤5,000 words (including title page, abstract, text, references, tables, and figure legends) Contemporary Reviews in Interventional Cardiology: Word count should not exceed 5,000 words (including text, references, tables, and figure legends) Research Letters: Must not exceed 800 words Case Reports and Images in Interventional Cardiology: Must not exceed 1,000 words Correspondence: Must not exceed 500 words Article Comment - eLetters: No longer than 500 words |
| Declarations | Ethics approval/consent as applicable; competing interests; funding; data availability |
| Figures/tables | Publication-ready; cited in order |
| Supplemental | Upload separately when used |
| Keywords | 1 to 8 keywords for use as indexing terms. Authors are advised to consider using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) database terms. (Note: While not explicitly stated on the Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions author instructions page, this is the standard requirement across AHA journals including Circulation: Heart Failure and Stroke, and is expected to apply to all AHA journals.) |
| References | Numbered endnote style (also referred to as AMA style). References must be cited in numerical order according to first mention in the text, including in figure and table legends. List the first 10 author names, followed by 'et al.' Reference limits by article type: - Original Research Articles: Maximum 50 references - Contemporary Reviews in Interventional Cardiology: Maximum 100 references - Research Letters: 5 references - Case Reports and Images in Interventional Cardiology: 4 references - Correspondence: 5 references - Article Comment - eLetters: Limited to 10 references Format example: Smith VA, Zhang J, Jones K. Article Title. Journal Name. 2015;100:555–559 |
| Peer review | Single-blind peer review (also referred to as single-anonymous). Manuscripts are examined by editorial staff and editors, then sent for external peer review when deemed appropriate. Manuscripts that receive initial favorable response undergo independent statistical review when appropriate. (Note: While the specific model is not explicitly stated on the Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions author instructions, single-blind is the standard peer review model used by AHA Circulation journals. Some AHA journals like Circulation: Heart Failure offer double-anonymous as an option.) |
| Submission | circinterventions-submit.aha-journals.org/cgi-bin/main.plex |
Read the Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions guide for authors once before drafting and once before upload. Draft the abstract after results are stable. Set the reference style before adding citations. Keep a cover letter that states your contribution and fit to Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions in under a page.
Skim two or three recent Circ Cardiovasc Interv papers to calibrate depth and figure style. Make the novelty clear in the first two pages. Deposit data and code when the policy on the Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions journal page requires it. Disclose any preprint or conference version with identifiers in the cover letter.
Do one focused pass against the Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions guide for authors: scope, length, reference style, required declarations, and figure quality. Then submit through the journal's submission system.