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]

B. Trivedi, The primate connection, Nature 466 (2010) S5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.H. McConkey, A. Varki, Genomics. Thoughts on the future of great ape research, Science 309 (2005) 1499–1501.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.M. Kim, C.M. Tingen, T.K. Woodruff, Sex bias in trials and treatment must end, Nature 465 (2010) 688–689.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Rowe, R.A. Ketcham, C. Denison, M. Colbert, X. Xu, P.J. Currie, Forensic palaeontology: The Archaeoraptor forgery, Nature 410 (2001) 539–540.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Murray, The Complete Software Project Manager, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

G. Dong, Sequence Data Mining, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Trajman, A. Crolotte, D. Steinhoff, R.O. Nambiar, M. Poess, Database Are Not Toasters: A Framework for Comparing Data Warehouse Appliances, in: R. Nambiar, M. Poess (Eds.), Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking: First TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2009, Lyon, France, August 24-28, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 31–51.

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, Why Medical Journals Must Make Researchers Share Data From Clinical Trials, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-medical-journals-must-make-researchers-share-data-clinical-trials/ (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, Student Financial Aid: Data Not Fully Utilized to Identify Inappropriately Awarded Loans and Grants, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.M. Jones, Educational paradigm shift: Emergence of the virtual classroom, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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]

M.W. Walsh, The Illusion of Savings, New York Times (2010) B1.

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
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