How to format your references using the Vascular Pharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vascular Pharmacology. 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	Download the output style file
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]

D. Gershon, Changing the face of training for science at the interface, Nature. 404 (2000) 315–316.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.J. Gaidos, F. Nimmo, Tectonics and water on Europa, Nature. 405 (2000) 637.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. West, N. Gromak, N.J. Proudfoot, Human 5’ --> 3’ exonuclease Xrn2 promotes transcription termination at co-transcriptional cleavage sites, Nature. 432 (2004) 522–525.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Hof, J. Westerweel, T.M. Schneider, B. Eckhardt, Finite lifetime of turbulence in shear flows, Nature. 443 (2006) 59–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Clark, The Making of a World City, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

D. Mueller-Hoeppe, S. Loehnert, S. Reese, eds., Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Szelag, A. Dacewicz, Nonlinear Timing and Language Processing in Norm and Pathology, in: A. Esposito, M. Faundez-Zanuy, A.M. Esposito, G. Cordasco, T. Drugman, J. Solé-Casals, F.C. Morabito (Eds.), Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 35–44.

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 Pharmacology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, LightSail’s Solar Sail Has Been Deployed, 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, USCIS Transformation: Improvements to Performance, Human Capital, and Information Technology Management Needed as Modernization Proceeds, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Mirzalou, Design and simulation of an 8-PSK super regenerative receiver with new phase detection technique, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

T.S. Bernard, S. Cowley, Equifax Is Facing Harsh Scrutiny. If Only It Had Come a Bit Sooner, New York Times. (2017) A1.

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 Pharmacology
Abbreviation	Vascul. Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1537-1891
Scope	Molecular Medicine Physiology Pharmacology