How to format your references using the Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America (FSC). 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

Jablonski D. Extinction: past and present. Nature 2004;427(6975):589.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiao L., Liu X. Structural basis of histone H3K27 trimethylation by an active polycomb repressive complex 2. Science 2015;350(6258):aac4383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paige JS., Wu KY., Jaffrey SR. RNA mimics of green fluorescent protein. Science 2011;333(6042):642–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Imamizu H., Miyauchi S., Tamada T., et al. Human cerebellar activity reflecting an acquired internal model of a new tool. Nature 2000;403(6766):192–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zwecher MJ. Retirement Portfolios Workbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Degiorgio V. Photonics: A Short Course. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Blocki J., Christin N., Datta A., Sinha A. Adaptive Regret Minimization in Bounded-Memory Games. In: Das SK, Nita-Rotaru C, and Kantarcioglu M, editors. Decision and Game Theory for Security: 4th International Conference, GameSec 2013, Fort Worth, TX, USA, November 11-12, 2013. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. p. 65–84.

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 Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America.

Blog post

Luntz S. The Alliance Between Jellyfish And Baby Fish Fails The Acid Test. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-alliance-between-jellyfish-and-baby-fish-fails-the-acid-test/. Accessed 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. Review of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Procurements of Automatic Data Processing Equipment. 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

Payne LG. The experience of caring for women with drug or alcohol problems in the general hospital. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2015.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: A Call For More Money To Fight Aids. New York Times 2003:A6.

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	Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America
Abbreviation	Facial Plast. Surg. Clin. North Am.
ISSN (print)	1064-7406
ISSN (online)	1558-1926
Scope	Surgery