How to format your references using the Reviews in Vascular Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reviews in Vascular Medicine. 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

[1]

G. Bilbe, Infectious diseases. Overcoming neglect of kinetoplastid diseases, Science 348 (2015) 974–976.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Shao, R.S. Hegde, Cell Biology. Local synthesis and disposal, Science 346 (2014) 701–702.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Männikkö, F. Elinder, H.P. Larsson, Voltage-sensing mechanism is conserved among ion channels gated by opposite voltages, Nature 419 (2002) 837–841.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.M. Levsky, S.M. Shenoy, R.C. Pezo, R.H. Singer, Single-cell gene expression profiling, Science 297 (2002) 836–840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Davies, Designing and Developing Scalable IP Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

H. Dawid, W. Semmler, eds., Computational Methods in Economic Dynamics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Vazquez, J.M. Miranda, E. Garfias, D. Dyolotzin, Fabrication and Characterization of Niobium-Aluminum Composites: Effect of Sintering Temperature, in: T. Sano, T.S. Srivatsan (Eds.), Advanced Composites for Aerospace, Marine, and Land Applications II, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 39–52.

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 Reviews in Vascular Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, New Horizons Finally Gets Up Close With Pluto – For 15 Minutes, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-finally-gets-close-pluto-15-minutes/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, FAA Financing: Issues and Options in Deciding to Reinstate or Replace the Airline Ticket Tax, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.B. Wilson, Constructions of childhood found in award -winning children’s literature, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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]

T. Midler, J. Leland, On Any Given Wednesday, New York Times (2017) MB7.

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	Reviews in Vascular Medicine
Abbreviation	Rev. Vasc. Med.
ISSN (print)	2212-0211
Scope