How to format your references using the Advances in Cosmetic Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Cosmetic Surgery. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

P. Quay, Climate change. Ups and downs of CO2 uptake, Science. 298 (2002) 2344.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.M. Tobias, F. Cattaneo, Shear-driven dynamo waves at high magnetic Reynolds number, Nature. 497 (2013) 463–465.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.Y. Sazonov, A.A. Lutovinov, R.A. Sunyaev, An apparently normal gamma-ray burst with an unusually low luminosity, Nature. 430 (2004) 646–648.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W.L. Ng, M.A. Lourenço, R.M. Gwilliam, S. Ledain, G. Shao, K.P. Homewood, An efficient room-temperature silicon-based light-emitting diode, Nature. 410 (2001) 192–194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.W. Cherrie, R.M. Howie, S. Semple, Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

G. Conole, T. Klobučar, C. Rensing, J. Konert, E. Lavoué, eds., Design for Teaching and Learning in a Networked World: 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2015, Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Erduran, Z.R. Dagher, Scientific Practices, in: Z.R. Dagher (Ed.), Reconceptualizing the Nature of Science for Science Education: Scientific Knowledge, Practices and Other Family Categories, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 67–89.

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 Advances in Cosmetic Surgery.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Thanks To Reduced Solar Activity, We Could Be Heading For A Mini Ice Age In 2030, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/we-could-be-heading-mini-ice-age-2030/ (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, Digital Television Transition: Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program Is Under Way, but Preparedness to Manage an Increase in Subsidy Demand Is Unclear, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.K. Baumgarten, An Examination of the Relationship between Collegiate Student-Athlete’s Leadership Role in the Athletic Setting and Their Academic Success, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2013.

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]

L. Greenhouse, Supreme Court Is Referee In Delaware River Fight, New York Times. (2007) B2.

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	Advances in Cosmetic Surgery
ISSN (print)	2542-4327
Scope