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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Bayer, M., 2014. Botany. Patterning cues from the altruistic sibling. Science 344, 158–159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scully, M.O., Svidzinsky, A.A., 2009. Physics. The super of superradiance. Science 325, 1510–1511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aravind, L., Dixit, V.M., Koonin, E.V., 2001. Apoptotic molecular machinery: vastly increased complexity in vertebrates revealed by genome comparisons. Science 291, 1279–1284.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mimee, M., Nadeau, P., Hayward, A., Carim, S., Flanagan, S., Jerger, L., Collins, J., McDonnell, S., Swartwout, R., Citorik, R.J., Bulović, V., Langer, R., Traverso, G., Chandrakasan, A.P., Lu, T.K., 2018. An ingestible bacterial-electronic system to monitor gastrointestinal health. Science 360, 915–918.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pietersen, W., 2010. Strategic Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Chen, Z., Liu, A., Qu, Y., Tang, L., Ting, N., Tsong, Y. (Eds.), 2015. Applied Statistics in Biomedicine and Clinical Trials Design: Selected Papers from 2013 ICSA/ISBS Joint Statistical Meetings, ICSA Book Series in Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bingham, G.E., Okagaki, L., 2012. Ethnicity and Student Engagement, in: Christenson, S.L., Reschly, A.L., Wylie, C. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Student Engagement. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 65–95.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Kissing Your Dog Isn’t Just Gross, It Can Potentially Make You Very Sick [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/kissing-your-dog-isnt-just-gross-it-can-potentially-make-you-very-sick/ (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, 1991. Customs Automation: Progress Made, More Expected in Revenue Reconciliation Process (No. IMTEC-91-27). 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

Day, J.P., 2010. Semirelativistic few body problems with matrix continued fraction methods (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Schmidt, S., 2016. Family Grieves After Student Is Killed in College Town Thought to Be Safe. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bayer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bayer, 2014; Scully and Svidzinsky, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Scully and Svidzinsky, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Mimee 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