How to format your references using the Neurovascular Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurovascular Imaging. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Strasser BJ. Genetics. GenBank--Natural history in the 21st Century? Science. 2008;322:537–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Brinker CJ, Clem PG. Materials science. Quartz on silicon. Science. 2013;340:818–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Suzuki T, Asami M, Perry ACF. Asymmetric parental genome engineering by Cas9 during mouse meiotic exit. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7621.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gelhaus HC, Anderson MS, Fisher DA, Flavin MT, Xu Z-Q, Sanford DC. Efficacy of post exposure administration of doxycycline in a murine model of inhalational melioidosis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ryan F. Cognitive Therapy for Addiction. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Pan Y, Chen D, Guo M, Cao J, Dongarra J, editors. Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications: Third International Symposium, ISPA 2005, Nanjing, China, November 2-5, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bouleau N, Denis L. The Lent Particle Formula. In: Denis L, editor. Dirichlet Forms Methods for Poisson Point Measures and Lévy Processes: With Emphasis on the Creation-Annihilation Techniques. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 83–105.

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 Neurovascular Imaging.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Kepler Returns With Host Of New Planets, Some With Potential For Life. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Inspectors General: Compliance With Professional Standards by the Transportation Inspector General. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Aug. Report No.: AFMD-87-28.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Donihoo K. Best Practices and Strategies Used by Church Leaders to Mitigate and Prevent Burnout Among Church Volunteers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine 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

1. Walsh MW. In California, Study Says, Teachers’ Pensions Fall Short of Other Public Workers’. New York Times. 2011 May 6;B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Neurovascular Imaging
Abbreviation	Neurovasc. Imaging
ISSN (online)	2055-5792
Scope