How to format your references using the Vascular Cell citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vascular Cell. 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. Kerr RA. GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING: Geologists Pursue Solar System’s Oldest Relics. Science. 2000;290:2239–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ito T, Handa H. Myeloid disease: Another action of a thalidomide derivative. Nature. 2015;523:167–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lintunen A, Hölttä T, Kulmala M. Anatomical regulation of ice nucleation and cavitation helps trees to survive freezing and drought stress. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2031.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bello A, Chand A, Aviles J, Soule G, Auricchio A, Kobinger GP. Novel adeno-associated viruses derived from pig tissues transduce most major organs in mice. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6644.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Saccone C, Pesole G. Handbook of Comparative Genomics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Kyung C-M, Yoo S, editors. Energy-Aware System Design: Algorithms and Architectures. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cavailhès J, Brossard T, Hilal M, Joly D, Tourneux F-P, Tritz C, et al. Pricing the Homebuyer’s Countryside View. In: Baranzini A, Ramirez J, Schaerer C, Thalmann P, editors. Hedonic Methods in Housing Markets: Pricing Environmental Amenities and Segregation. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. p. 83–99.

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 Vascular Cell.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Huge Exploding Stars can be Powered by the Strongest Magnets [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/magnetar-powers-supernova/

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. Overpayment of Title I Funds at the Richmond City Public School System During FY 1978. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Feb. Report No.: 108614.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mazon WE. The effect of the Breath Builder^TM on various lung functions and musical performance abilities of clarinet players [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: 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. Brantley B. Next Stop: An a Cappella Subway Journey. New York Times. 2016 Dec 12;C6.

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	Vascular Cell
Abbreviation	Vasc. Cell
ISSN (online)	2045-824X
Scope	Cell Biology Computer Networks and Communications Developmental Neuroscience Neurology