How to format your references using the Microcirculation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microcirculation. 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

Schiermeier Q. Clouded vision. Nature. 2003;422(6929):356–357.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheu Y-J, Stillman B. The Dbf4-Cdc7 kinase promotes S phase by alleviating an inhibitory activity in Mcm4. Nature. 2010;463(7277):113–117.

A journal article with 3 authors

Veenstra GJ, Weeks DL, Wolffe AP. Distinct roles for TBP and TBP-like factor in early embryonic gene transcription in Xenopus. Science. 2000;290(5500):2312–2315.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Perfeito L, Fernandes L, Mota C, Gordo I. Adaptive mutations in bacteria: high rate and small effects. Science. 2007;317(5839):813–815.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Becker K, Rautenstrauch K. Ingenieurholzbau nach Eurocode 5: Konstruktion, Berechnung, Ausführung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

Li H, editor. Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 2. 1st ed. 2015. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Roebben B. How Much and Which Theology in Religious Education? On the Intimate Place of Theology in the Public Space of the SchoolIn: Buchanan MT, Gellel A-M, eds. Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015:35–45.

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 Microcirculation.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Studies Fail To Find Associations Between Psychedelic Drugs And Mental Health Problems. [IFLScience]. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-studies-fail-find-associations-between-psychedelic-drugs-and-mental-health-problems/. 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

Government Accountability Office. Army Networks: Select Programs Are Utilizing Competition to Varying Degrees. GAO-14-460Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; May 29, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bleicher J. Scenario methods as a means for enhancing organizational learning: A Delphi study. Doctoral DissertationUniversity of Phoenix; 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

Koblin J, Grynbaum MM, Maheshwari S. NBC Woos Advertisers With Megyn Kelly, Its New Morning Anchor. [New York Times], May 15, 2017, B5.

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	Microcirculation
ISSN (print)	1073-9688
ISSN (online)	1549-8719
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