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

French RM. Computer science. Dusting off the Turing test. Science. 2012;336:164–165

A journal article with 2 authors

Flatt T, Promislow DEL. Physiology. Still pondering an age-old question. Science. 2007;318:1255–1256

A journal article with 3 authors

Barthelemy P, Bertolotti J, Wiersma DS. A Lévy flight for light. Nature. 2008;453:495–498

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ihmels J, Bergmann S, Gerami-Nejad M, et al. Rewiring of the yeast transcriptional network through the evolution of motif usage. Science. 2005;309:938–940

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ippolito LJ Jr. Satellite Communications Systems Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2008

An edited book

Georgieva P, Mihaylova L, Jain LC, eds. Advances in Intelligent Signal Processing and Data Mining: Theory and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang X, Dong H, Tian Y. miRNA Electrochemical Detection. In: Dong H, Tian Y, eds. MicroRNA Detection and Pathological Functions. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015:37–56

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

Luntz S. Hidden Brain Activity Distinguishes Between Vegetative Patients. IFLScience. 2014 Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/hidden-brain-activity-distinguishes-between-vegetative-patients/. 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. Analysis of NASA’s Fiscal Year 1983 Budget Request for Research and Development To Determine the Amount That Supports DOD’s Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Irving AV. Occupational Stress and Law Enforcement Officer Significant Relationships. 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

Taylor K. Named Next President of N.Y.U., Oxford’s Leader Inherits Challenges. New York Times. March 19, 2015:A20

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