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]

Johns-Krull CM. Astrophysics: Secret ingredient exposed. Nature 2014;514:571–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cane MA, Evans M. CLIMATE VARIABILITY: Enhanced: Do the Tropics Rule? Science 2000;290:1107–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hannon JB, Tersoff J, Tromp RM. Surface stress and thermodynamic nanoscale size selection. Science 2002;295:299–301.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Albarede F, Blichert-Toft J, Vervoort JD, Gleason JD, Rosing M. Hf-Nd isotope evidence for a transient dynamic regime in the early terrestrial mantle. Nature 2000;404:488–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Buchenau J. The Last Caudillo. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Wright D, De Hert P, editors. Enforcing Privacy: Regulatory, Legal and Technological Approaches. vol. 25. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

McDermott R. Prospect Theory and Negotiation. In: Sjöstedt G, Avenhaus R, editors. Negotiated Risks: International Talks on Hazardous Issues, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 1–23.

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 E. Why US And Chinese Cities Will Make Or Break Any Global Climate Deal. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-us-and-chinese-cities-will-make-or-break-any-global-climate-deal/ (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. Increasing Use of Data Telecommunications Calls for Stronger Protection and Improved Economies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wilday D. Soulmaking within the destructive side of God seeing through monotheism’s holy warrior 9/11 to prehistory. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014.

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]

de la MERCED MJ, Benner K. A Wardrobe by Mail. New York Times 2017: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	Annales de Chirurgie Vasculaire
ISSN (print)	0299-2213
Scope