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

Dixit V. Jürg Tschopp (1951-2011). Nature. 2011 Apr 21;472(7343):296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sontheimer EJ, Carthew RW. Molecular biology. Argonaute journeys into the heart of RISC. Science. 2004 Sep 3;305(5689):1409–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roopnarine PD, Angielczyk KD, Hertog R. Comment on “Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.” Science. 2006 Nov 10;314(5801):925; author reply 925.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cooper VR, Seo SSA, Lee S, Kim JS, Choi WS, Okamoto S, et al. Transparent conducting oxides: a δ-doped superlattice approach. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug 11;4:6021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dowrick DJ. Earthquake Risk Reduction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Braak H. Neuroanatomy and Pathology of Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease. Del Tredici K, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XI, 162 p. 48 illus., 44 illus. in color. (Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology; vol. 215).

A chapter in an edited book

Dassios G. Electric and Magnetic Activity of the Brain in Spherical and Ellipsoidal Geometry. In: Ammari H, editor. Mathematical Modeling in Biomedical Imaging I: Electrical and Ultrasound Tomographies, Anomaly Detection, and Brain Imaging. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 133–202. (Lecture Notes in Mathematics).

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. Hidden “Mantle Scars” Can Come To Life And Cause Earthquakes [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hidden-mantle-scars-can-come-to-life-and-cause-earthquakes/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: FAA Is Making Progress But Important Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Mar. Report No.: T-AIMD/RCED-99-118.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tofthagen CS. Development and psychometric evaluation of the Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Assessment Tool [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2008.

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

Vecsey G. Two Teams That Need An Introduction. New York Times. 2011 Mar 31;B17.

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

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