How to format your references using the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (EJVS). 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

Spitzer NC. DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE. Neurotransmitter-tailored dendritic trees. Science 2015;350(6260):510–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cruz G, Lowe G. Neural coding of binary mixtures in a structurally related odorant pair. Sci Rep 2013;3:1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker WC, Weber T, Chapman ER. Reconstitution of Ca2+-regulated membrane fusion by synaptotagmin and SNAREs. Science 2004;304(5669):435–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wisotzki L, Bacon R, Brinchmann J, Cantalupo S, Richter P, Schaye J, et al. Nearly all the sky is covered by Lyman-α emission around high-redshift galaxies. Nature 2018;562(7726):229–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Acharya VV, Cooley TF, Richardson M, Walter I. Regulating Wall Street. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Mark D. Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Pakarinen MP, Mutanen A. Intestinal Failure-Associated Liver Disease. In: Rintala RJ, Pakarinen M, and Wester T, editors. Current Concepts of Intestinal Failure. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 51–61.

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 Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.

Blog post

Hale T. Stick Man Drawing Moves Around When Splashed With Water. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/stick-man-drawing-moves-around-when-splashed-with-water/. 10/30/2018.

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. Indian Affairs: Further Actions on GAO Recommendations Needed to Address Systemic Management Challenges with Indian Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Steers AV. Releasing from the inside out: The development of the role of Helene in “Festen.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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. Supreme Court to Determine Fate of Business Tax Credits. New York Times 2005:C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Vasc. Endovasc. Surg.
ISSN (print)	1078-5884
ISSN (online)	1532-2165
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Surgery