How to format your references using the Aesthetic Plastic Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aesthetic Plastic 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

Finney B (2007) Anthropology. Tracking Polynesian seafarers. Science 317:1873–1874

A journal article with 2 authors

Clements DH, Sarama J (2011) Early childhood mathematics intervention. Science 333:968–970

A journal article with 3 authors

Wiedemann N, Meisinger C, Pfanner N (2009) Cell biology. Connecting organelles. Science 325:403–404

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hajkova P, Ancelin K, Waldmann T, et al (2008) Chromatin dynamics during epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line. Nature 452:877–881

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bunker G, Thomson D (2006) Delivering Utility Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wang D, Zheng Z (2005) Differential Equations with Symbolic Computation. Birkhäuser, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Kosec M, Malič B, Benčan A, Rojac T (2008) KNN-Based Piezoelectric Ceramics. In: Safari A, Akdoğan EK (eds) Piezoelectric and Acoustic Materials for Transducer Applications. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 81–102

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 Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Trippy 360-Degree, Panoramic Time Lapse Of Night Sky. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/trippy-360-degree-panoramic-time-lapse-night-sky/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1978) The Space Transportation System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Holmes K (2008) Ethical practice online: An exploration of provider liability risk among practitioners in the emerging field of online therapy. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Pear R, Kelly K (2017) Trump Concedes Health Overhaul Is a Thorny Task. New York Times A1

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	Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Abbreviation	Aesthetic Plast. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0364-216X
ISSN (online)	1432-5241
Scope	Surgery