How to format your references using the Journal of the Association for Vascular Access citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Association for Vascular Access. 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

Koretz D. Education. Moving past No Child Left Behind. Science. 2009;326(5954):803-804.

A journal article with 2 authors

Löytynoja A, Goldman N. Evolution. Uniting alignments and trees. Science. 2009;324(5934):1528-1529.

A journal article with 3 authors

Audouze K, Brunak S, Grandjean P. A computational approach to chemical etiologies of diabetes. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2712.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dexter JP, Tamme MB, Lind CH, Collins EMS. On-chip immobilization of planarians for in vivo imaging. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinn JF. Dementia. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Montgomery A, Kehoe I, eds. Reimagining the Purpose of Schools and Educational Organisations: Developing Critical Thinking, Agency, Beliefs in Schools and Educational Organisations. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bart H, Kaashoek MA, Ran ACM. Explicit solutions using realizations. In: Kaashoek MA, Ran ACM, eds. A State Space Approach to Canonical Factorization with Applications. Birkhäuser; 2010:37-56.

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 the Association for Vascular Access.

Blog post

Andrew E. Chemical Extracted From Broccoli Sprouts May Help Ease Autism Symptoms. IFLScience.

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. Safeguarding Taxpayer Information: An Evaluation of the Proposed Computerized Tax Administration System. 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

Poudel SR. Models and Algorithms to Solve a Reliable and Congested Biomass Supply Chain Network Designing Problem under Uncertainty. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University; 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

Rothenberg B. Tennis Star Is Stabbed in Invasion of Home. New York Times. December 20, 2016:B10.

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 the Association for Vascular Access
ISSN (print)	1552-8855
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous)