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. Mervis J. Department of Energy. Nominee scores cabinet hat trick. Science. 2004;306:2018.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Smetacek V, Zingone A. Green and golden seaweed tides on the rise. Nature. 2013;504:84–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Berner RA, Vandenbrooks JM, Ward PD. Evolution. Oxygen and evolution. Science. 2007;316:557–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Stevenson RM, Young RJ, Atkinson P, Cooper K, Ritchie DA, Shields AJ. A semiconductor source of triggered entangled photon pairs. Nature. 2006;439:179–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Brown SR, Gregory WM, Twelves C, Brown J. A Practical Guide to Designing Phase II Trials in Oncology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. R TMD, A CMG, editors. Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population: A Guide for Clinicians. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Benz W. Hyperbolic Geometry, Dimension-Free. In: Prékopa A, Molnár E, editors. Non-Euclidean Geometries: János Bolyai Memorial Volume. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006. p. 97–107.

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. O`Callaghan J. Watch Cassini Dive Over Saturn In This Amazing Video [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-cassini-dive-over-saturn-in-this-amazing-video/

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. APHIS: Solid Wood Packing Material From China. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Oct. Report No.: OGC-99-2.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kraynik MJ. Perceptions of U.S. Navy managers toward telecommuting as a management approach: A phenomenological study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2009.

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. de la MERCED MJ. Buffett Bets on Energy With $9 Billion Bid for Texas Utility. New York Times. 2017 Jul 7;B1.

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
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