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 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

Shlesinger MF (2001) Physics in the noise. Nature 411:641

A journal article with 2 authors

Behar SM, Sassetti CM (2014) Immunology: Fixing the odds against tuberculosis. Nature 511:39–40

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaufman YJ, Tanré D, Boucher O (2002) A satellite view of aerosols in the climate system. Nature 419:215–223

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Da Mesquita S, Louveau A, Vaccari A, et al (2018) Publisher Correction: Functional aspects of meningeal lymphatics in ageing and Alzheimer’s disease. Nature

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gwynne A (2013) Guide to Building Control. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Kotlarsky J, Oshri I, Willcocks LP (2014) Governing Sourcing Relationships. A Collection of Studies at the Country, Sector and Firm Level: 8th Global Sourcing Workshop 2014, Val d’Isere, France, March 23-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Gray WG, Miller CT (2014) Microscale Closure for a Fluid Phase. In: Miller CT (ed) Introduction to the Thermodynamically Constrained Averaging Theory for Porous Medium Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 167–199

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

Luntz S (2015) Stunning Fossils Rewrite Evolutionary History of Life on Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stunning-fossils-rewrite-evolutionary-history/. 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 (1971) Need for Disclosing Items Developed in Programs Funded Under Federal Grants. 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

Necaise KW (2012) Effects of soybean-derived phytoestrogens on reproductive tract development in neonatal male and female pigs: Animal model for the human infant. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

(nyt) SK (2004) World Briefing | Asia: Putin Indicates Kurile Deal Is Not Likely Soon. New York Times A6

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