How to format your references using the Angiogenesis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Angiogenesis. 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	Download the output style file
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

Friedman WE (2006) Embryological evidence for developmental lability during early angiosperm evolution. Nature 441:337–340

A journal article with 2 authors

Peters DH, Bloom G (2012) Developing world: Bring order to unregulated health markets. Nature 487:163–165

A journal article with 3 authors

Schaedler TA, Jacobsen AJ, Carter WB (2013) Materials science. Toward lighter, stiffer materials. Science 341:1181–1182

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ozsoy-Keskinbora C, Boothroyd CB, Dunin-Borkowski RE, et al (2014) Hybridization approach to in-line and off-axis (electron) holography for superior resolution and phase sensitivity. Sci Rep 4:7020

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spence R (2008) Introductory Circuits. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex

An edited book

Zechner M (2012) Beginning Android Games, Second Edition. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Bridge D, O’Mahony E, O’Sullivan B (2012) Case-Based Reasoning for Autonomous Constraint Solving. In: Hamadi Y, Monfroy E, Saubion F (eds) Autonomous Search. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 73–95

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 Angiogenesis.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) What Is This Bizarre See-Through Creature? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-leptocephalus/. 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 (2002) NASA: Compliance With Cost Limits Cannot Be Verified. 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

Pan A (2017) The Mental Health and Well-Being of College Students in Cambodia. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Bennhold K (2017) In Merkel, a Lofty Symbol for German Women, but an Anomaly. 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	Angiogenesis
Abbreviation	Angiogenesis
ISSN (print)	0969-6970
ISSN (online)	1573-7209
Scope	Cancer Research Clinical Biochemistry Physiology