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]

Mayor S. Coming home. Nature 2005;436:488–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Freeman RB, Huang W. Collaboration: Strength in diversity. Nature 2014;513:305.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Li WKW, Harrison WG, Head EJH. Coherent sign switching in multiyear trends of microbial plankton. Science 2006;311:1157–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Osterloh A, Amico L, Falci G, Fazio R. Scaling of entanglement close to a quantum phase transition. Nature 2002;416:608–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wells R. Global Credit Management. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Saranto K, Castrén M, Kuusela T, Hyrynsalmi S, Ojala S, editors. Safe and Secure Cities: 5th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2014, Turku, Finland, August 18-20, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 450. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lumsden J, Flinn S, Anderson M, Morgan W. What Difference Do Guidelines Make? An Observational Study of Online-questionnaire Design Guidelines Put to Practical Use. In: McEwan T, Gulliksen J, Benyon D, editors. People and Computers XIX — The Bigger Picture: Proceedings of HCI 2005, London: Springer; 2006, p. 69–83.

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]

Andrew E. Orthorexia Nervosa: When Righteous Eating Becomes An Obsession. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/orthorexia-nervosa-when-righteous-eating-becomes-obsession/ (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. FAA Oversight of Procedures and Technologies to Prevent and Mitigate the Effects of Dense, Continuous Smoke in the Cockpit. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Williamson CL. Hispanic female undergraduates perception of nursing as a career choice: A phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Feeney K. A Cornucopia Of Produce. New York Times 2008:NJ14.

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