How to format your references using the Cerebrovascular Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cerebrovascular Diseases. 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

Asphaug E. Planetary science. The shifting sands of asteroids. Science. 2007 May;316(5827):993–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chameides WL, Bergin M. Climate change. Soot takes center stage. Science. 2002 Sep;297(5590):2214–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou Q, Su X, Ning K. Assessment of quality control approaches for metagenomic data analysis. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov;4:6957.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yoshida S, Kono K, Lowery DM, Bartolini S, Yaffe MB, Ohya Y, et al. Polo-like kinase Cdc5 controls the local activation of Rho1 to promote cytokinesis. Science. 2006 Jul;313(5783):108–11.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi FJ, Kothari V. Introduction to Securitization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Segalini A, editor. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Jets, Wakes and Separated Flows (ICJWSF2015). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Tan CM, He F. Interconnect EM Reliability Modeling at Circuit Layout Level. In: He F, editor. Electromigration Modeling at Circuit Layout Level. Singapore: Springer; 2013; pp 75–99.

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 Cerebrovascular Diseases.

Blog post

Hale T. National Geographic’s Nature Photographer Of The Year Winners Are As Awesome As Ever [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Dec [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/national-geographics-nature-photographer-of-the-year-winners-are-as-awesome-as-ever/

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. Operations of and Outlook for the Highway Trust Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Darko-Mensah K. Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Measure the Online Outsourcing Efficiency of Sub-Saharan African Countries. 2019

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

Koblin J. Stewart Will Perform Stand-Up On HBO. New York Times. 2017 Jul;B5.

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	Cerebrovascular Diseases
Abbreviation	Cerebrovasc. Dis.
ISSN (print)	1015-9770
ISSN (online)	1421-9786
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Clinical Neurology Neurology