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]

Aebischer P. Philanthropy: The price of charity. Nature 2012;481:260.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dupont S, Pörtner H. Marine science: get ready for ocean acidification. Nature 2013;498:429.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen IA, Roberts RW, Szostak JW. The emergence of competition between model protocells. Science 2004;305:1474–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kim M, Canio W, Kessler S, Sinha N. Developmental changes due to long-distance movement of a homeobox fusion transcript in tomato. Science 2001;293:287–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Hens H. Applied Building Physics. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Popper AN, Hawkins A, editors. The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. vol. 875. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Halkola A, Buzug T, Rahmer J, Gleich B, Bontus C. System Calibration Unit for Magnetic Particle Imaging: Focus Field Based System Function. In: Buzug TM, Borgert J, editors. Magnetic Particle Imaging: A Novel SPIO Nanoparticle Imaging Technique, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 27–31.

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

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Andrew D. Schizophrenia May Cause Type 2 Diabetes, New Study Finds. IFLScience 2017.

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

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Government Accountability Office. Protest of Air Force Contract Award. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Williams VD. Leadership behavior practice patterns’ relationship to employee work engagement in a nonprofit that supports the homeless. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2014.

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

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Kishkovsky S. A Government Train To Tolstoy’s Birthplace. New York Times 2002:53.

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

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