How to format your references using the European Journal of Plastic Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Plastic Surgery. 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

Brumfiel G (2009) Arms pact could boost US-Russian science. Nature 460:316

A journal article with 2 authors

Asimow PD, Langmuir CH (2003) The importance of water to oceanic mantle melting regimes. Nature 421:815–820

A journal article with 3 authors

Zavatta A, Viciani S, Bellini M (2004) Quantum-to-classical transition with single-photon-added coherent states of light. Science 306:660–662

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Olmschenk S, Matsukevich DN, Maunz P, et al (2009) Quantum teleportation between distant matter qubits. Science 323:486–489

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blundell A, Harrison R, Turney B (2010) The Essential Guide to Becoming a Doctor. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Daradoumis T, Caballé S, Marquès JM, Xhafa F (2009) Intelligent Collaborative e-Learning Systems and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Michel RL (2005) Tritium in the Hydrologic Cycle. In: Aggarwal PK, Gat JR, Froehlich KFO (eds) Isotopes in the Water Cycle: Past, Present and Future of a Developing Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 53–66

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 European Journal of Plastic Surgery.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Thieving Cleaner Fish Are The Con Artists Of Coral Reefs. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1991) FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cornelius DA (2014) The value of Scrum to organizations: A case study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Wagner J (2017) Mets’ Plan to Deal With Injuries: Don’t Talk About Them So Much. New York Times B9

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	European Journal of Plastic Surgery
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Plast. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0930-343X
ISSN (online)	1435-0130
Scope	Surgery