How to format your references using the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 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

Smith CL. How the LHC came to be. Nature. 2007;448:281–284

A journal article with 2 authors

Berman DE, Dudai Y. Memory extinction, learning anew, and learning the new: dissociations in the molecular machinery of learning in cortex. Science. 2001;291:2417–2419

A journal article with 3 authors

Ehebauer M, Hayward P, Arias AM. Notch, a universal arbiter of cell fate decisions. Science. 2006;314:1414–1415

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Klamp T, Camps M, Nieto B, et al. Highly rapid amplification-free and quantitative DNA imaging assay. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1852

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dvorak R, Lhotka C. Celestial Dynamics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013

An edited book

Kessler G. The Risks of Nuclear Energy Technology: Safety Concepts of Light Water Reactors. (Veser A, Schlüter F-H, Raskob W, Landman C, Päsler-Sauer J, eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014

A chapter in an edited book

Eriksson L, Wahlström J, Klein M. Physical Modeling of Turbocharged Engines and Parameter Identification. In: Re L del, Allgöwer F, Glielmo L, Guardiola C, Kolmanovsky I, eds. Automotive Model Predictive Control: Models, Methods and Applications. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. London: Springer; 2010:53–71

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 of Reconstructive Microsurgery.

Blog post

Andrew E. Pollution May Be Promoting Lethal Tumors In Turtles. IFLScience. 2014 Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/pollution-may-be-promoting-lethal-tumors-turtles/. 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. Transportation Security Administration: TSA Executive Attrition Has Declined, but Better Information Is Needed on Reasons for Leaving and Executive Hiring Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warren PD. Characterizing polymers for cardiovascular devices. 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

Vecsey G. Baseball Since 1869; Last Pennant Only Seems That Long Ago. New York Times. August 23, 2010:D3

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	Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
ISSN (print)	0743-684X
ISSN (online)	1098-8947
Scope	Surgery