How to format your references using the Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

McClelland JL. Retrospective. R. Duncan Luce (1925-2012). Science 2012;337:1619.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Onishi KH, Baillargeon R. Do 15-month-old infants understand false beliefs? Science 2005;308:255–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kinney MA, Saeed R, McDevitt TC. Mesenchymal morphogenesis of embryonic stem cells dynamically modulates the biophysical microtissue niche. Sci Rep 2014;4:4290.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Andreoli E, Dillon EP, Cullum L, Alemany LB, Barron AR. Cross-linking amine-rich compounds into high performing selective CO2 absorbents. Sci Rep 2014;4:7304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McLean D. Understanding Aerodynamics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Hehn T. CMOS Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters: Efficient Power Extraction, Interface Modeling and Loss Analysis. vol. 38. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Thakuriah P, Geers DG. Conclusions. In: Geers DG, editor. Transportation and Information: Trends in Technology and Policy, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 97–101.

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 Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. How Did The Moon Form? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/moons-formation-not-so-unlikely/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Election Reform: Nine States’ Experiences Implementing Federal Requirements for Computerized Statewide Voter Registration Lists. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Perlstein JA. Support for families affected by incarceration: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

[1]

Feeney K. On Tap: Beer and Conversation. New York Times 2009:NJ12.

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 Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques
Abbreviation	J. Vasc. Surg. Cases Innov. Tech.
ISSN (print)	2468-4287
Scope