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

Blow N. Transcriptomics: The digital generation. Nature. 2009 Mar 12;458(7235):239–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jesson LK, Barrett SCH. Solving the puzzle of mirror-image flowers. Nature. 2002 Jun 13;417(6890):707.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang X, Zhu Y, Granick S. Hydrophobicity at a Janus interface. Science. 2002 Jan 25;295(5555):663–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ahn TK, Avenson TJ, Ballottari M, Cheng YC, Niyogi KK, Bassi R, et al. Architecture of a charge-transfer state regulating light harvesting in a plant antenna protein. Science. 2008 May 9;320(5877):794–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Family Firm Institute, Inc. Family Enterprise. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Rosenberg A, Demeule B, editors. Biobetters: Protein Engineering to Approach the Curative. New York, NY: Springer; 2015. XV, 378 p. 50 illus., 22 illus. in color. (AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series; vol. 19).

A chapter in an edited book

Donohue C, Bradley-King C, Cahalane H. Permanency. In: Cahalane H, editor. Contemporary Issues in Child Welfare Practice. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 75–99.

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

Andrews R. Creationist VP Mike Pence Will Head A Space Science Committee [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/creationist-vp-mike-pence-head-space-science-committee/

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. Space Research: Content and Coordination of Space Science and Technology Strategy Need to Be More Robust. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Jul. Report No.: GAO-11-722.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pan A. The Mental Health and Well-Being of College Students in Cambodia [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Koblin J, Corasaniti N. One Nation, Under Fox. New York Times. 2017 Mar 25;A18.

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