How to format your references using the ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs). 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

Gallo RC: Historical essay. The early years of HIV/AIDS Science 298: 1728–1730, 2002

A journal article with 2 authors

Stuart DR, Fagnou K: The catalytic cross-coupling of unactivated arenes Science 316: 1172–1175, 2007

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson DDP, Stopka P, Knights S: Sociology: The puzzle of human cooperation Nature 421: 911–2; discussion 912, 2003

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tang W, Kim T-W, Oses-Prieto JA, et al.: BSKs mediate signal transduction from the receptor kinase BRI1 in Arabidopsis Science 321: 557–560, 2008

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plumb JA, Hanson LA: Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

An edited book

Jacobson M, Locasto M, Mohassel P, Safavi-Naini R (eds): Applied Cryptography and Network Security: 11th International Conference, ACNS 2013, Banff, AB, Canada, June 25-28, 2013. Proceedings Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Llewellyn A, Mendick H: Does Every Child Count? Quality, Equity and Mathematics with/in Neoliberalism, in: Atweh B, Graven M, Secada W, Valero P (eds) Mapping Equity and Quality in Mathematics Education. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011, pp. 49–62.

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 ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs).

Blog post

Luntz S: New Galaxy Discovered Close To Our Own IFLScience, 2014 Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-images-newly-discovered-neighboring-galaxy/. 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

Government Accountability Office: Federal Surplus Ships: Government Efforts to Address the Growing Backlog of Ships Awaiting Disposal Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kalinec-Craig C: A case study of four Latina/o pre-service teachers in learning to teach mathematics for understanding and integrate a child’s out-of-school mathematical knowledge and experiences, 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

Viera M: Giants’ Manning Needs 12 Stitches After a Collision New York Times. August 17, 2010:B12.

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	ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs)
Abbreviation	ASAIO J.
ISSN (print)	1058-2916
ISSN (online)	1538-943X
Scope	Biophysics Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials General Medicine