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

Busse FH. Physics. Visualizing the dynamics of the onset of turbulence. Science. 2004 Sep;305(5690):1574–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deckert R, Dameris M. Atmospheric science. From ocean to stratosphere. Science. 2008 Oct;322(5898):53–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chao BF, Wu YH, Li YS. Impact of artificial reservoir water impoundment on global sea level. Science. 2008 Apr;320(5873):212–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Barnea G, O’Donnell S, Mancia F, Sun X, Nemes A, Mendelsohn M, et al. Odorant receptors on axon termini in the brain. Science. 2004 Jun;304(5676):1468.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aubry J-F, Brinzei N, Mazouni M-H. Systems Dependability Assessment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Chorianopoulos K, Divitini M, Baalsrud Hauge J, Jaccheri L, Malaka R, editors. Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2015: 14th International Conference, ICEC 2015, Trondheim, Norway, September 29 - Ocotober 2, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Franklin ME, Tolin DF. Doing the Detective Work: In: Tolin DF, editor. Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems. New York, NY: Springer; 2007; pp 39–50.

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

Carpineti C. Check Out This Mesmerizing Spanish Dancer Sea Slug [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 May [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/check-out-this-mesmerizing-spanish-dancer-sea-slug/

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. Distance Education: Growth in Distance Education Programs and Implications for Federal Education Policy. 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

Holloway LR. Synthesis and investigation of novel dinitrosyl-Iron complexes of chelated Bis-phosphine ligands: Potential nitric oxide delivery compounds. 2013

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

Crow K. You Say Clutter, I Say Canopy, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off. New York Times. 2001 Jun;144.

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