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. Hengartner MO. The biochemistry of apoptosis. Nature. 2000;407:770–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rathmell JC, Newgard CB. Biochemistry. A glucose-to-gene link. Science. 2009;324:1021–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yu H, Tang H, Xu P. Green strategy from waste to value-added-chemical production: efficient biosynthesis of 6-hydroxy-3-succinoyl-pyridine by an engineered biocatalyst. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5397.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sun X, Kaur J, Milojević S, Flammini A, Menczer F. Social dynamics of science. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stephans RA. System Safety for the 21 st Century. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

1. Wobus AM, Boheler KR, editors. Stem Cells. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Merkulovs D, Dekhtyar Y, Vilitis O, Shipkovs P, Merkulova V. Cylindrical Cell-Based Refractometers to Analyse Biomedical Liquids. In: Jobbágy Á, editor. First European Biomedical Engineering Conference for Young Investigators: ENCY2015, Budapest, May 28 - 30, 2015. Singapore: Springer; 2015. p. 16–9.

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. Rising Seas Due To Climate Change Claim Their First Mammal Species. 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. Airport Finance: Using Airport Grant Funds for Security Projects Has Affected Some Development Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Oct. Report No.: GAO-03-27.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Haigh CV. More Than Skin Deep: The Impact of Self-Esteem, Desire for Lighter Skin, and Gender on the Mental Health of University Students in Thailand [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Kercher S. First Tinder, Then Marriage? New York Times. 2017 Apr 19;D5.

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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