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]

M.J. Cohn, Evolutionary biology: lamprey Hox genes and the origin of jaws, Nature 416 (2002) 386–387.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.B. Zimmerman, P.T. Anastas, Chemistry. Toward substitution with no regrets, Science 347 (2015) 1198–1199.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Nilewski, R.W. Geisser, E.M. Carreira, Total synthesis of a chlorosulpholipid cytotoxin associated with seafood poisoning, Nature 457 (2009) 573–576.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-Y. Lee, B.-C. Yoo, M.R. Rojas, N. Gomez-Ospina, L.A. Staehelin, W.J. Lucas, Selective trafficking of non-cell-autonomous proteins mediated by NtNCAPP1, Science 299 (2003) 392–396.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Kukushkin, Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

B.J. Voorhis, P.N. Schlegel, C. Racowsky, D.T. Carrell, eds., Biennial Review of Infertility: Volume 1, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Gerber, H. Arms, M. Wiecher, C. Danner, Flexibility Surprises – Its Significance and Its Value, in: H. Arms, M. Wiecher, C. Danner (Eds.), Leveraging Flexibility: Win the Race with Dynamic Decision Management, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 56–62.

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, Neurogenesis Could Help Adult Brains Adapt To Changing Environments, 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, Federal Documents in Languages Other Than English Published and Distributed in Calendar Years 1995-1997, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.O. Colker, A grounded theory approach to developing a theory of leadership through a case study of ShoreBank, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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]

M. Billard, The Seasonal Mix: Camel, Fur and Leather, New York Times (2010) E6.

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