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

Fialko Y: Interseismic strain accumulation and the earthquake potential on the southern San Andreas fault system Nature 441: 968–971, 2006

A journal article with 2 authors

Gibson BK, Flynn C: White dwarfs and dark matter Science 292: 2211, 2001

A journal article with 3 authors

Nazir S, Amin B, Schwingenschlögl U: Suppression of the two-dimensional electron gas in LaGaO3/SrTiO3 by cation intermixing Sci Rep 3: 3409, 2013

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chew YL, Fan X, Götz J, Nicholas HR: Regulation of age-related structural integrity in neurons by protein with tau-like repeats (PTL-1) is cell autonomous Sci Rep 4: 5185, 2014

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bennett DH: Bennett’s Cardiac Arrhythmias Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Pieroni A, Quave CL (eds): Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation New York, NY: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Cala S, Osuna JL: Aeronautics in Spain: Specialization & Beyond, in: Dupuy Y, Frigant V, Gilly JP, et al. (eds) European Aeronautics: The Southwestern Axis. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, pp. 143–192.

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: Birds Go Nuts Choosing Most Promising Shell IFLScience, 2015 Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/birds-go-nuts-choosing-most-promising-shell/. 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: Highway Infrastructure: Interstate Physical Conditions Have Improved, but Congestion and Other Pressures Continue Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cai S: 3D Numerical Modeling of Dry/Wet Contact Mechanics for Rough, Multilayered Elastic-Plastic Solid Surfaces and Effects of Hydrophilicity/Hydrophobicity During Separation with Applications, 2008

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

Gustines GG: Graphic Evidence Of Comics Fanatics New York Times. October 8, 2010:C25.

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

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