How to format your references using the Journal des Maladies Vasculaires citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal des Maladies Vasculaires. 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

[1]

Vedral V. Quantifying entanglement in macroscopic systems. Nature 2008;453:1004–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Casares F, Mann RS. The ground state of the ventral appendage in Drosophila. Science 2001;293:1477–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen F, Tillberg PW, Boyden ES. Optical imaging. Expansion microscopy. Science 2015;347:543–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hardy J, Francis KP, DeBoer M, Chu P, Gibbs K, Contag CH. Extracellular replication of Listeria monocytogenes in the murine gall bladder. Science 2004;303:851–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Feldkamp FL, Whalen RC. Financial Stability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Ellerton NF. Abraham Lincoln’s Cyphering Book and Ten other Extraordinary Cyphering Books. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ashbee HR, Bond R. Malassezia Species and Immunity: Host–Pathogen Interactions. In: Boekhout T, Mayser P, Guého-Kellermann E, Velegraki A, editors. Malassezia and the Skin: Science and Clinical Practice, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 139–73.

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 Journal des Maladies Vasculaires.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. A Single Cosmic Collision May Have Given Us Most Of Our Precious Metals. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-single-cosmic-collision-may-have-given-us-most-of-our-precious-metals/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Need for a Government-Wide Budget Classification Structure for Federal Research and Development Information, Appendix IV. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Woodard J. Emergent properties. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Tommasini A. A Rich Revival for a Chilling Drama. New York Times 2017:C6.

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	Journal des Maladies Vasculaires
Abbreviation	J. Mal. Vasc.
ISSN (print)	0398-0499
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine