How to format your references using the Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids (EVCNA). 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

Watts C. Immunology. Antigen presentation--losing its shine in the absence of GILT. Science 2001;294:1294–5. [PMID: 11701917].

A journal article with 2 authors

Falkowski PG, Davis CS. Natural proportions. Nature 2004;431:131. [PMID: 15356609].

A journal article with 3 authors

Yu Y, Huang L, Cao L. Semiconductor solar superabsorbers. Sci Rep 2014;4:4107. [PMID: 24531211].

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bargheer M, Zhavoronkov N, Gritsai Y, et al. Coherent atomic motions in a nanostructure studied by femtosecond X-ray diffraction. Science 2004;306:1771–3. [PMID: 15576618].

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flaus J-M. Risk Analysis. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Takamura S, editor. Splitting Deformations of Degenerations of Complex Curves: Towards the Classification of Atoms of Degenerations, III. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Brodersen A, Büscher M, Christensen M, et al. Spatial Computing and Spatial Practices. In: Streitz N, Kameas A, Mavrommati I, editors. The Disappearing Computer: Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. pp. 77–95.

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 Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids.

Blog post

Davis J. FDA Panel Backs Experimental Drug That Improves Women’s Sex Drives. IFLScience 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fda-panel-support-female-viagra-approval/. [Last accessed on October 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. U.S. Customs Service: Better Targeting of Airline Passengers for Personal Searches Could Produce Better Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hau CC. Beliefs of nurse practitioner students toward testicular cancer and teaching testicular self-examinations. 2012.

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

Murphy MJO. Ethel M. Smyth, Opera Composer, Met a Chorus of Critical Disdain in 1903. New York Times. . February 19, 2016:C27.

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	Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids
ISSN (online)	2767-6641
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