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

Marx V (2013) Next-generation sequencing: The genome jigsaw. Nature 501:263–268

A journal article with 2 authors

Blau WJ, Fleming AJ (2004) Materials science. Designer nanotubes by molecular self-assembly. Science 304:1457–1458

A journal article with 3 authors

Mellor J, Nicoll RA, Schmitz D (2002) Mediation of hippocampal mossy fiber long-term potentiation by presynaptic Ih channels. Science 295:143–147

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mi D, Li Z, Lim L, et al (2018) Early emergence of cortical interneuron diversity in the mouse embryo. Science 360:81–85

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sandou G (2013) Metaheuristic Optimization for the Design of Automatic Control Laws. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Yang Y, Ma M (2013) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hunt KS, Ray JA, Jeter JM (2014) Hereditary Risk for Cancer. In: Alberts D, Hess LM (eds) Fundamentals of Cancer Prevention. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 123–150

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

Andrew E (2015) The VW Scandal Exposes The High Tech Control Of Engine Emissions. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/vw-scandal-exposes-high-tech-control-engine-emissions/. 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 (1977) Request for Assistance on Allegations From K. R. Higgins Concerning Planning Research Corporation’s Contract at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. 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

Tuschall A (2017) Exploration of the Relationship Between Implicit Theory of Intelligence and Employability. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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 (2016) Bruce Limps Off, and the Mets Crumble. New York Times B13

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