How to format your references using the Annales de Chirurgie Vasculaire citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annales de Chirurgie Vasculaire. 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]

Schwille P. Bottom-up synthetic biology: engineering in a tinkerer’s world. Science 2011;333:1252–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

van der Marel D, Sawatzky GA. Physics. An optical twist for triplet superconductors. Science 2014;345:138–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mo Y, Turner KT, Szlufarska I. Friction laws at the nanoscale. Nature 2009;457:1116–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ganesh L, Burstein E, Guha-Niyogi A, Louder MK, Mascola JR, Klomp LWJ, et al. The gene product Murr1 restricts HIV-1 replication in resting CD4+ lymphocytes. Nature 2003;426:853–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mattu A, Grossman SA, Rosen PL. Geriatric Emergencies. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Axelsson S. Understanding Intrusion Detection Through Visualization. vol. 24. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pulini G, Hulance D. Flexeos Embedded FPGA Solution. In: Voros NS, Rosti A, Hübner M, editors. Dynamic System Reconfiguration in Heterogeneous Platforms: The MORPHEUS Approach, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009, p. 39–47.

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 Annales de Chirurgie Vasculaire.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. DNA Reveals Aboriginal People Had A Long And Settled Connection To Country. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dna-reveals-aboriginal-people-had-a-long-and-settled-connection-to-country/ (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. Transportation Infrastructure: Benefits of Traffic Control Signal Systems Are Not Being Fully Realized. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mbwiri FI. Remedial Math Instruction Intervention: Efficacy of Constructivist Practices on Alternative Students with Disabilities Mathematics Achievement. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 2017.

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]

Pilon M. A Different Way of Taking Off at J.F.K. New York Times 2013:D8.

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	Annales de Chirurgie Vasculaire
ISSN (print)	0299-2213
Scope