How to format your references using the Seminars in Vascular Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seminars in Vascular Surgery. 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]

Reich J. Education research. Rebooting MOOC research. Science 2015;347:34–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ruths D, Pfeffer J. Social sciences. Social media for large studies of behavior. Science 2014;346:1063–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wang Z, Yu H, Su H. The transport properties of oxygen vacancy-related polaron-like bound state in HfOx. Sci Rep 2013;3:3246.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hirosumi J, Tuncman G, Chang L, Görgün CZ, Uysal KT, Maeda K, et al. A central role for JNK in obesity and insulin resistance. Nature 2002;420:333–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Eggleston B. The ICE Conditions of Contract: Seventh Edition. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Willis-Esqueda C, editor. Motivational Aspects of Prejudice and Racism. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Foelsch PA, Schlüter-Müller S, Odom AE, Arena HT, Borzutzky AH, Schmeck K. Diagnosis and Treatment Indications. In: Schlüter-Müller S, Odom AE, Arena HT, Borzutzky H. A, Schmeck K, editors. Adolescent Identity Treatment: An Integrative Approach for Personality Pathology, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 39–57.

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 Seminars in Vascular Surgery.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. ‘Teenage’ Jupiter May Hold The Secret Of How Planets Form. IFLScience 2015.

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. Space Research: Content and Coordination of Space Science and Technology Strategy Need to Be More Robust. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hayes MG. A qualitative case study of cultural competency among Advanced Placement teachers in Florida. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2010.

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]

Brantley B. Some Sugar. Could Use More Spice. New York Times 2017:C2.

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	Seminars in Vascular Surgery
Abbreviation	Semin. Vasc. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0895-7967
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Surgery