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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Wurtz RH. Retrospective. David H. Hubel (1926-2013). Science 2013;342:572.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Stöhr K, Esveld M. Public health. Will vaccines be available for the next influenza pandemic? Science 2004;306:2195–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Samokhvalov IM, Samokhvalova NI, Nishikawa S-I. Cell tracing shows the contribution of the yolk sac to adult haematopoiesis. Nature 2007;446:1056–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang X, Zhu H, Liu X, Yang F, Yang X. Egg white coagulum: a precisely tailorable membrane for biomimetic multilevel structured nanomaterials. Sci Rep 2013;3:1464.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Thomas CG. Greece. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Asay BW, editor. Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, Vol. 5: Non-Shock Initiation of Explosives. vol. 5. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Blasco O. The Bohr Radius of a Banach Space. In: Curbera GP, Mockenhaupt G, Ricker WJ, editors. Vector Measures, Integration and Related Topics, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2010, p. 59–64.

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. Scientists Discover Strange New Brain Cell Shape. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-discover-strange-new-brain-cell-shape/ (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. Public Transportation: Preliminary Information on FTA’s Implementation of SAFETEA-LU Changes. 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]

Mahan CP. First to the finish line: A case study of first generation baccalaureate degree completers in the University of Maryland Student Support Services program. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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]

Barron J. Man Arrested in Strangling of a Jogger in Queens. New York Times 2017:A16.

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