How to format your references using the IntraVital citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IntraVital. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Paul GS. Comment on “Narrow primary feather rachises in Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx suggest poor flight ability.” Science 2010; 330:320; author reply 320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maillard I, Saltiel AR. Metabolism: Inflammation keeps old mice healthy. Nature 2015; 528:44–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

González MC, Hidalgo CA, Barabási A-L. Understanding individual human mobility patterns. Nature 2008; 453:779–82.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Takaku Y, Hwang JS, Wolf A, Böttger A, Shimizu H, David CN, Gojobori T. Innexin gap junctions in nerve cells coordinate spontaneous contractile behavior in Hydra polyps. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3573.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li Y. Computer Principles and Design in Verilog HDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Gong Z, Luo X, Chen J, Lei J, Wang FL, editors. Web Information Systems and Mining: International Conference, WISM 2011, Taiyuan, China, September 24-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Garnier E, Adams N, Sagaut P. Explicit Structural Modeling. In: Adams N, Sagaut P, editors. Large Eddy Simulation for Compressible Flows. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. page 95–118.

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 IntraVital.

Blog post

Andrew E. Vanadium: The “Beautiful Metal’ That Stores Energy. IFLScience2016;

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. Amtrak Training: Improvements Needed for Employees Who Inspect and Maintain Rail Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lin Y-S. Virtuoso piano transcriptions of Stephen Hough and Marc-André Hamelin: Lisztian tradition in the twenty-first century. 2009;

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

Lee L. Not at First Sight, or Even the First Dozen. New York Times2013; :ST12.

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	IntraVital
Abbreviation	Intravital
ISSN (print)	2165-9079
ISSN (online)	2165-9087
Scope