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

Jerolmack DJ. Planetary science. Pebbles on Mars. Science. 2013 May 31;340(6136):1055–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gao KQ, Shubin NH. Earliest known crown-group salamanders. Nature. 2003 Mar 27;422(6930):424–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doebeli M, Hauert C, Killingback T. The evolutionary origin of cooperators and defectors. Science. 2004 Oct 29;306(5697):859–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rawat UBS, Zavialov AV, Sengupta J, Valle M, Grassucci RA, Linde J, et al. A cryo-electron microscopic study of ribosome-bound termination factor RF2. Nature. 2003 Jan 2;421(6918):87–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valizadeh P. Field Effect Transistors, A Comprehensive Overview. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Bock R, editor. Cell and Molecular Biology of Plastids. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. XIX, 524 p. (Topics in Current Genetics; vol. 19).

A chapter in an edited book

Suraj Z, Grochowalski P. Patterns of Collaborations in Rough Set Research. In: Bello R, Falcón R, Pedrycz W, Kacprzyk J, editors. Granular Computing: At the Junction of Rough Sets and Fuzzy Sets. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 79–92. (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing).

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

Davis J. Zika Virus May Shrink Testicles And Cause Fertility Problems In Men [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zika-virus-may-shrink-testicles-and-cause-fertility-problems-in-men/

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. Information Security: Weak Controls Place DC Highway Trust Fund and Other Data at Risk. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Jan. Report No.: GAO-01-155.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Corbets JB. Evaluating System Architecture Quality and Architecting Team Performance Using Information Quality Theory [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Barron J. Where’s the Art? at a Hamptons Center, Look Behind the Wall. New York Times. 2017 Feb 26;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