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

Heilbron JL (2005) Wit and wisdom. Nature 438:29

A journal article with 2 authors

Hughes S, Gurung S (2014) Exploring the boundary between a siphon and barometer in a hypobaric chamber. Sci Rep 4:4741

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin X, Fauqué B, Behnia K (2015) SOLID-STATE PHYSICS. Scalable T² resistivity in a small single-component Fermi surface. Science 349:945–948

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shimojima T, Sakaguchi F, Ishizaka K, et al (2011) Orbital-independent superconducting gaps in iron pnictides. Science 332:564–567

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nussbaumer A, Borges L, Davaine L (2012) Fatigue Design of Steel and Composite Structures. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany

An edited book

Blanchard P, Fröhlich J (2015) The Message of Quantum Science: Attempts Towards a Synthesis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Tao C, Li D, Shen F, et al (2013) Phenotyping on EHR Data Using OWL and Semantic Web Technologies. In: Zeng D, Yang CC, Tseng VS, et al (eds) Smart Health: International Conference, ICSH 2013, Beijing, China, August 3-4, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–32

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) First Ever Bites Of Space-Grown Food. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-ever-bites-space-grown-food/. 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 (2010) Aviation Safety: Icing and Winter Weather-Related Recommendations That NTSB Has Issued Since 1996 (GAO-10-679SP), an E-supplement to (GAO-10-678). 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

Parker EC (2010) Perceptions of youth with diabetes and their parents/guardians about youth eating habits and nutrition-related difficulties. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2008) A Case-by-Case Ruling on Discrimination. New York Times A17

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