How to format your references using the Journal of Vascular Research citation style

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

Ott E. Obituary: Edward N. Lorenz (1917-2008). Nature. 2008 May;453(7193):300.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharma P, Allison JP. Retrospective. Lloyd J. Old (1933-2011). Science. 2012 Jan;335(6064):49.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bloss TA, Witze ES, Rothman JH. Suppression of CED-3-independent apoptosis by mitochondrial betaNAC in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2003 Aug;424(6952):1066–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Moro R, Xu X, Yin S, de Heer WA. Ferroelectricity in free niobium clusters. Science. 2003 May;300(5623):1265–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yalaoui A, Chehade H, Yalaoui F, Amodeo L. Optimization of Logistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Quirk TJ. Excel 2010 for Human Resource Management Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Carneiro P, Heckman JJ, Masterov DV. Understanding the Sources of Ethnic and Racial Wage Gaps and Their Implications for Policy. In: Nielsen LB, Nelson RL, editors. Handbook of Employment Discrimination Research: Rights and Realities. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005; pp 99–136.

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 Vascular Research.

Blog post

Hamilton K. Did Snakes Evolve From Ancient Sea Serpents? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/did-snakes-evolve-from-ancient-sea-serpents/

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. Opportunities for Improving Computer Use in the Bureau of the Mint. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Leslie MS. Understanding Individual Change in Practice: A Grounded Theory Study of Maternity Care Providers. 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

Schwirtz M. Mayor Unveiling Proposal To Close Rikers Jail Complex. New York Times. 2017 Jun;A22.

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 of Vascular Research
Abbreviation	J. Vasc. Res.
ISSN (print)	1018-1172
ISSN (online)	1423-0135
Scope	Physiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine