How to format your references using the Cerebrovascular Diseases Extra citation style

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

Geach JE. Galaxy formation: When the wind blows. Nature. 2015 Mar;519(7544):423–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Truffer M, Fahnestock M. Climate change. Rethinking ice sheet time scales. Science. 2007 Mar;315(5818):1508–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora C, Rollo A, Tittensor DP. Comment on “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” Science. 2013 Jul;341(6143):237.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tang Y-J, Zhang H-F, Deloule E, Su B-X, Ying J-F, Santosh M, et al. Abnormal lithium isotope composition from the ancient lithospheric mantle beneath the North China Craton. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar;4:4274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Allen DS. Why Plato Wrote. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

Medin J, Fowler D, editors. Experimental and Applied Immunotherapy. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Larco N, Kelsey K, West A. Project Checklist. In: Kelsey K, West A, editors. Site Design for Multifamily Housing: Creating Livable, Connected Neighborhoods. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2014; pp 87–9.

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 Extra.

Blog post

Fang J. World’s Oldest Blood Cells Preserved in Ötzi the Iceman [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/worlds-oldest-blood-cells-preserved-tzi-iceman/

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. Environmental Satellites: Planning Required to Mitigate Near-term Risks and Ensure Long-term Continuity. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Manzanares ME. Effect of a preoperative multidisciplinary education program on weight management after bariatric surgery. 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

Higgins A. In Measured Speech, Putin Calls for ‘Mutually Beneficial’ Ties With U.S. New York Times. 2016 Dec;A4.

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 Extra
Abbreviation	Cerebrovasc. Dis. Extra
ISSN (online)	1664-5456
Scope