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 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

Hoag H. Gene therapy rising? Nature 2005; 435:530–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roy S, Asenov A. Applied physics. Where do the dopants go? Science 2005; 309:388–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

DeRenzo C, Reese KJ, Seydoux G. Exclusion of germ plasm proteins from somatic lineages by cullin-dependent degradation. Nature 2003; 424:685–9.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Song YY, Ye M, Li C, He X, Zhu-Salzman K, Wang RL, Su YJ, Luo SM, Zeng RS. Hijacking common mycorrhizal networks for herbivore-induced defence signal transfer between tomato plants. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3915.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu J, Tao D. Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Boyadjiev C. Modeling of Column Apparatus Processes. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiao J, Nishihara Y. Pharmaceuticals. In: Nishihara Y, editor. Applied Cross-Coupling Reactions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. page 85–109.

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. New Alzheimer’s Drug Shows Promise [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-alzheimers-drug-shows-promise/

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. Technology Transfer: Implementation Status of the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haxton SA. Student Risk Perception in the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory. 2017;

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

Powell M. Zen Phil Exits The Garden. The Knicks Will Endure. New York Times2017; :B9.

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