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

Chazdon RL. Beyond deforestation: restoring forests and ecosystem services on degraded lands. Science. 2008 Jun;320(5882):1458–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mel’nikov AS, Vinokur VM. Mesoscopic superconductor as a ballistic quantum switch. Nature. 2002 Jan;415(6867):60–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Willner AE, Wang J, Huang H. Applied physics. A different angle on light communications. Science. 2012 Aug;337(6095):655–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Munekage Y, Hashimoto M, Miyake C, Tomizawa K-I, Endo T, Tasaka M, et al. Cyclic electron flow around photosystem I is essential for photosynthesis. Nature. 2004 Jun;429(6991):579–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Funk W, Dammann V, Donnevert G, Ianelli S, Ianelli E, Gray A. Quality Assurance in Analytical Chemistry. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2006.

An edited book

Krause A. The Basics of S-PLUS. Fourth Edition. New York, NY: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

On CK, Yao TK, Alfred R, Ibrahim AAA, Cheng W, Guan TT. A Comparison of BPNN, RBF, and ENN in Number Plate Recognition. In: Berry MW, Hj. Mohamed A, Yap BW, editors. Soft Computing in Data Science: Second International Conference, SCDS 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 21-22, 2016, Proceedings. Singapore: Springer; 2016; pp 37–47.

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

Andrew E. Scientists Find “Reset” Button For The Body Clock [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Apr [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-reveal-how-our-body-clocks-reset/

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. National Transportation Safety Board: Reauthorization Provides an Opportunity to Focus on Implementing Leading Management Practices and Addressing Human Capital and Training Center Issues. 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

Born KB. Student and Principal Perceptions of the California High School Proficiency Examination in Community Schools: A Case Study. 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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: At Least 20 Killed In Mall Fire. New York Times. 2005 Jul;A12.

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