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]

Faigman DL. Science and the law. Is science different for lawyers? Science 2002;297:339–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Richardson AJ, Poloczanska ES. Ocean science. Under-resourced, under threat. Science 2008;320:1294–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tzfira T, Vaidya M, Citovsky V. Involvement of targeted proteolysis in plant genetic transformation by Agrobacterium. Nature 2004;431:87–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Matheu A, Maraver A, Klatt P, Flores I, Garcia-Cao I, Borras C, et al. Delayed ageing through damage protection by the Arf/p53 pathway. Nature 2007;448:375–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Kindmann R, Kraus M. Steel Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Fekete SP, editor. Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks: Fourth International Workshop, ALGOSENSORS 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2008. Revised Selected Papers. vol. 5389. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

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Haque F, Guo P. Membrane-Embedded Channel of Bacteriophage Phi29 DNA-Packaging Motor for Translocation and Sensing of Double-Stranded DNA. In: Iqbal SM, Bashir R, editors. Nanopores: Sensing and Fundamental Biological Interactions, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011, p. 77–106.

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

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Andrew E. Scientists Discover A Way To Heal A Broken Heart. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-discover-way-heal-broken-heart/ (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. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Risk-Based Oversight for Repair Stations Could Benefit from Additional Airline Data and Performance Metrics [Reissued on September 2, 2016]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Kolasa A. Essays on Firm Behavior in Developing Countries. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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]

Gustines GG. Drawn From History and Imagination. New York Times 2012:C33.

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

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