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

Horby P. H7N9 is a virus worth worrying about. Nature 2013;496(7446):399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zarur AJ, Ying JY. Reverse microemulsion synthesis of nanostructured complex oxides for catalytic combustion. Nature 2000;403(6765):65–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

McLaughlin AC, Sher F, Attfield JP. Negative lattice expansion from the superconductivity--antiferromagnetism crossover in ruthenium copper oxides. Nature 2005;436(7052):829–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ma A, Xu J, Zhang X, Zhang B, Wang D, Xu H. Interfacial nanodroplets guided construction of hierarchical Au, Au-Pt, and Au-Pd particles as excellent catalysts. Sci Rep 2014;4:4849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laheurte J-M, Ripoll C, Paret D, Loussert C. UHF RFID Technologies for Identification and Traceability. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Shrikhande GV, McKinsey JF, editors. Diabetes and Peripheral Vascular Disease: Diagnosis and Management. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Senk SL, Tatto MT, Reckase M, Rowley G, Peck R, Bankov K. Knowledge of Future Primary Teachers for Teaching Mathematics: An International Comparative Study. In: Blömeke S, Hsieh F-J, Kaiser G, and Schmidt WH, editors. International Perspectives on Teacher Knowledge, Beliefs and Opportunities to Learn: TEDS-M Results. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. pp. 61–90.

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

O`Callaghan J. Humans May Have An In-built GPS, Based On Discovery Of “Speed Cells” In Rats. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/discovery-speed-cells-rats-suggests-we-have-built-gps/. 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. Areas Needing Improvement in the Adult Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slade SW. The complexity of leading in the 21st century: A case study of a successful charter school in an urban school district. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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

Williams J. A Different Kind of Dystopian Novel. New York Times 2017:C5.

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

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