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. Diamond J. Unwritten knowledge. Nature. 2001;410:521.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schacter DL, Addis DR. Constructive memory: the ghosts of past and future. Nature. 2007;445:27.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Velicer GJ, Kroos L, Lenski RE. Developmental cheating in the social bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Nature. 2000;404:598–601.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kalantry S, Purushothaman S, Bowen RB, Starmer J, Magnuson T. Evidence of Xist RNA-independent initiation of mouse imprinted X-chromosome inactivation. Nature. 2009;460:647–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lin XS. Introductory Stochastic Analysis for Finance and Insurance: Lin/Introductory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Ziemke T, Balkenius C, Hallam J, editors. From Animals to Animats 12: 12th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2012, Odense, Denmark, August 27-30, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bykov V, Goldfarb I, Gol’dshtein V, Sazhin S, Sazhina E. Dynamic Decomposition of ODE Systems: Application to Modelling of Diesel Fuel Sprays. In: Gorban AN, Kevrekidis IG, Theodoropoulos C, Kazantzis NK, Öttinger HC, editors. Model Reduction and Coarse-Graining Approaches for Multiscale Phenomena. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 81–97.

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. Staring Into Someone’s Eyes For 10 Minutes Can Alter Your Consciousness [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/you-can-alter-your-mind-staring-someones-eyes-10-minutes/

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. Tax System Modernization: Issues Facing IRS. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Jul. Report No.: T-IMTEC-91-18.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Claar PL. A Correlational Study Comparing the Relationship between School Leader Intercultural Development, Selected Demographic Variables, and Student Achievement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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. Vecsey G. Lost Notes Will Linger as Footsteps Fall. New York Times. 2010 Nov 4;B17.

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