How to format your references using the Microvascular Research citation style

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

Barnes, W.J.P., 2007. Materials science. Biomimetic solutions to sticky problems. Science 318, 203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, J.-Y., Jameson, S.C., 2012. Immunology. Remembering to be tolerant. Science 335, 667–668.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mashchenko, S., Wadsley, J., Couchman, H.M.P., 2008. Stellar feedback in dwarf galaxy formation. Science 319, 174–177.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bates, A.E., Helmuth, B., Burrows, M.T., Duncan, M.I., Garrabou, J., Guy-Haim, T., Lima, F., Queiros, A.M., Seabra, R., Marsh, R., Belmaker, J., Bensoussan, N., Dong, Y., Mazaris, A.D., Smale, D., Wahl, M., Rilov, G., 2018. Biologists ignore ocean weather at their peril. Nature 560, 299–301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McDonald, A.G., Magande, H.L., 2012. Introduction to Thermo-Fluids Systems Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ferrari, A., 2013. L’arto inferiore nella paralisi cerebrale infantile: Semeiotica e chirurgia funzionale. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Buchan, S., 2012. Through Music to Postgraduate Study, in: Ryan, M. (Ed.), Reflections on Learning, Life and Work: Completing Doctoral Studies in Mid and Later Life and Career. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 53–65.

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 Microvascular Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2016. Chimpanzees Less Stressed With Friends By Their Side [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. Student Financial Aid Systems: Absence of Guiding Architecture Reduces Efficiency, Ease of Use (No. T-AIMD-97-147). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Poudel, S.R., 2017. Models and Algorithms to Solve a Reliable and Congested Biomass Supply Chain Network Designing Problem under Uncertainty (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Chivers, C.J., SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; Erin Arvedlund contributed reporting from Moscow for this article, 2004. U.S. Investigative Journalist Is Shot to Death in Russia. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Barnes, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Barnes, 2007; Lee and Jameson, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lee and Jameson, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Bates et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Microvascular Research
Abbreviation	Microvasc. Res.
ISSN (print)	0026-2862
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine