How to format your references using the Journal of Vascular Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Vascular Surgery. 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	Download the output style file
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

Aldiss B. Cognitive ability and the light bulb. Nature. 2000 Jan 20;403(6767):253.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gibbs RA, Nelson DL. Human genetics. Primate shadow play. Science. 2003 Feb 28;299(5611):1331–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou Z, Barrett PM, Hilton J. An exceptionally preserved Lower Cretaceous ecosystem. Nature. 2003 Feb 20;421(6925):807–14.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ungless MA, Whistler JL, Malenka RC, Bonci A. Single cocaine exposure in vivo induces long-term potentiation in dopamine neurons. Nature. 2001 May 31;411(6837):583–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nahar L, Sarker SD. Steroid Dimers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Özcan A, Chaki N, Nagamalai D, editors. Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks: Second International Conference, WiMo 2010, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. X, 446 p. 183 illus. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 84).

A chapter in an edited book

Patel B. Non-surgical Root Canal Treatment. In: Patel B, editor. Endodontic Treatment, Retreatment, and Surgery: Mastering Clinical Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 71–100.

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.

Blog post

Carpineti A. New Study Claims That Life On Mars Is A Serious Possibility [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-study-claims-that-life-on-mars-is-a-serious-possibility/

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

Government Accountability Office. Improvements Needed in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Management and Use of Its Automatic Data Processing Resources. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Sep. Report No.: EMD-79-102.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nolan SA. Ecopoetry and ecocentrism: The poetics of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Sisario B. Superstar Adjusts to a Streaming World. New York Times. 2017 Sep 3;B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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
Abbreviation	J. Vasc. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0741-5214
ISSN (online)	1097-6809
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Surgery