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]

Smaglik P. Working for peanuts. Nature 2003;425:323.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

González J, Petrov D. Genetics. MITEs--the ultimate parasites. Science 2009;325:1352–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

García-Ruiz JM, Melero-García E, Hyde ST. Morphogenesis of self-assembled nanocrystalline materials of barium carbonate and silica. Science 2009;323:362–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bhat-Nakshatri P, Goswami CP, Badve S, Sledge GW Jr, Nakshatri H. Identification of FDA-approved drugs targeting breast cancer stem cells along with biomarkers of sensitivity. Sci Rep 2013;3:2530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Vegh A. Web Development with the Mac®. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Perner P, editor. Advances in Data Mining: Applications and Theoretical Aspects: 15th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2015, Hamburg, Germany, July 11-24, 2015, Proceedings. vol. 9165. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bog A, Sachs K, Zeier A, Plattner H. Normalization in a Mixed OLTP and OLAP Workload Scenario. In: Nambiar R, Poess M, editors. Topics in Performance Evaluation, Measurement and Characterization: Third TPC Technology Conference, TPCTC 2011, Seattle, WA, USA, August 29-September 3, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 67–82.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Astronauts Might Eat These Space Food Bars On A Future Mission To The Moon. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronauts-might-eat-these-space-food-bars-on-a-future-mission-to-the-moon/ (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. Computer-Based Patient Records: VA and DOD Made Progress, but Much Work Remains to Fully Share Medical Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pederson HM. Decreasing blame and building therapeutic alliance: Clarifying central change processes in functional family therapy. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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

[1]

Feeney K. At the Gym Site, Food For Fitness Lovers. New York Times 2012:NJ8.

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