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]

Venemans B. Cosmology: A giant in the young Universe. Nature 2015;518:490–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Largeron M, Fleury M-B. Chemistry. Bioinspired oxidation catalysts. Science 2013;339:43–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kasuya A, Sakabe J-I, Tokura Y. Potential application of in vivo imaging of impaired lymphatic duct to evaluate the severity of pressure ulcer in mouse model. Sci Rep 2014;4:4173.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Burrows MT, Schoeman DS, Buckley LB, Moore P, Poloczanska ES, Brander KM, et al. The pace of shifting climate in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Science 2011;334:652–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fliszár S. Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

von Braun J, Gatzweiler FW, editors. Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Imada A. Can Artiticial Neural Networks Evolve to be Intelligent Like Human? In: Golovko V, Imada A, editors. Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence: 8th International Conference, ICNNAI 2014, Brest, Belarus, June 3-6, 2014. Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 22–33.

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]

Fang J. Simple Blood Test Could Detect Suicide Risk. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/simple-blood-test-could-detect-suicide-risk/ (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. Urban Transportation: Challenges to Widespread Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Vu MK. Reducing mental health provider burnout through wellness: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

Vecsey G. A Heady Nightcap in a City Not Known for Sleeping. New York Times 2012:SP5.

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