How to format your references using the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 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

Smaglik P. Model mentors. Nature. 2005;434(7034):802-803.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maroteaux M, Mameli M. Neuroscience. Synaptic switch and social status. Science. 2011;334(6056):608-609.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liljas A, Ehrenberg M, Åqvist J. Comment on “The mechanism for activation of GTP hydrolysis on the ribosome.” Science. 2011;333(6038):37; author reply 37.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Chen CF, Park CH, Boudouris BW, Horng J, Geng B, Girit C, Zettl A, Crommie MF, Segalman RA, Louie SG, Wang F. Controlling inelastic light scattering quantum pathways in graphene. Nature. 2011;471(7340):617-620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fliszár S. Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Eigenmann R, Li Z, Midkiff SP, eds. Languages and Compilers for High Performance Computing: 17th International Workshop, LCPC 2004, West Lafayette, IN, USA, September 22-24, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 3602. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Siddiqi K, Bouix S, Shah J. Skeletons via Shocks of Boundary Evolution. In: Siddiqi K, Pizer SM, eds. Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications. Computational Imaging and Vision. Springer Netherlands; 2008:127-154.

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 Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Mediterranean Diet Linked With A Lower Risk Of Breast Cancer. IFLScience. September 15, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mediterranean-diet-now-linked-lower-risk-breast-cancer/

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. Aviation Safety: FAA Has Increased Efforts to Address Runway Incursions. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mavromati A. One Foot In. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. World Briefing | Europe: Abkhazia: Air Strikes On Rebels. New York Times. October 16, 2001:A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology
Abbreviation	Arterioscler. Thromb. Vasc. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1079-5642
ISSN (online)	1524-4636
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine