How to format your references using the Vascular Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	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

Smaglik P. Part-time growth. Nature 2002; 420: 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pellettieri J, Seydoux G. Anterior-posterior polarity in C. elegans and Drosophila--PARallels and differences. Science 2002; 298: 1946–1950.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yi-Xiang Y, Ye J, Liu W-M. Goldstone and Higgs modes of photons inside a cavity. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3476.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gavriil FP, Gonzalez ME, Gotthelf EV, et al. Magnetar-like emission from the young pulsar in Kes 75. Science 2008; 319: 1802–1805.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fliszár S. Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

An edited book

Erin LM, S WMM (eds). Fibromyalgia: Clinical Guidelines and Treatments. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlson DL, Albright J. The Technology of Portfolios. In: Carlson DL, Albright J (eds) Composing a Care of the Self: A Critical History of Writing Assessment in Secondary English Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2012, pp. 123–141.

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 Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. How Languages Evolved. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-indo-european-languages-may-have-evolved/ (2015, accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: DEA Has Developed Plans and Established Controls for Business Continuity Planning. AIMD-00-8, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 14 October 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang G. Roles of serotonin 2A receptor in a serotonin syndrome. Doctoral Dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 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

Gustines GG. DC Bringing Back Two Gay Heroes. New York Times, 1 July 2016, p. C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Medicine
Abbreviation	Vasc. Med.
ISSN (print)	1358-863X
ISSN (online)	1477-0377
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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