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

Myers EG. Fundamental constants: The teamwork of precision. Nature. 2014;506:440–441

A journal article with 2 authors

Du L, Poovaiah BW. Ca2+/calmodulin is critical for brassinosteroid biosynthesis and plant growth. Nature. 2005;437:741–745

A journal article with 3 authors

Mang PK, Larochelle S, Greven M. Condensed-matter physics: spurious magnetism in high-T(c) superconductor. Nature. 2003;426:139–40; discussion 140

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Swinbank AM, Smail I, Longmore S, et al. Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3. Nature. 2010;464:733–736

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory J. Counterparty Credit Risk and Credit Value Adjustment. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2012

An edited book

Thampi SM, Zomaya AY, Strufe T, Alcaraz Calero JM, Thomas T, eds. Recent Trends in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Security: International Conference, SNDS 2012, Trivandrum, India, October 11-12, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012

A chapter in an edited book

Durinovic-Belló I, Nepom GT. Characterizing T-Cell Autoimmunity. In: Eisenbarth GS, ed. Immunoendocrinology: Scientific and Clinical Aspects. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011:53–68

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. Solar Impulse Completes Record-Breaking Flight to Hawaii. IFLScience. 2015 Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/solar-impulse-completes-record-breaking-flight-hawaii/. 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. Millennium Challenge Corporation: Results of Transportation Infrastructure Projects in Seven Countries. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eastwood JL. The effects of an interdisciplinary undergraduate human biology program on socioscientific reasoning, content learning, and understanding of inquiry. 2010

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

Walsh MW, Cooper M. Big Teachers’ Fund to Sell Its Gun Shares. New York Times. January 10, 2013:B3

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