How to format your references using the Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy. 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]

Kim SK. Cell biology. Proteins that promote long life. Science 2007;317:603–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sallan L, Galimberti AK. Body-size reduction in vertebrates following the end-Devonian mass extinction. Science 2015;350:812–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Burkett V, Groat CG, Reed D. Hurricanes not the key to a sustainable coast. Science 2007;315:1366–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang Z, Klipfell E, Bennett BJ, Koeth R, Levison BS, Dugar B, et al. Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease. Nature 2011;472:57–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kovalev VA. Solutions in Lidar Profiling of the Atmosphere. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Connelly R, Ivić Weiss A, Whiteley W, editors. Rigidity and Symmetry. vol. 70. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bogdan DB, Villiger R. Exercises. In: Villiger R, editor. Valuation in Life Sciences: A Practical Guide, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 305–29.

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 Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Google Is Celebrating The Antikythera Mechanism’s Discovery – But What The Hell Is It? IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/google-is-celebrating-the-antikythera-mechanisms-discovery-but-what-the-hell-is-it/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Rail Transit: Reliability of FTA’s Rail Accident Database. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kluck MC. You are What You Read: Participation and Emancipation Problematized in Habacuc’s “Exposición #1.” 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]

Pilon M. After 2 Helmets Are Decertified, Lacrosse Faces Safety Concerns. New York Times 2014:D1.

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	Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy
ISSN (print)	2212-0971
Scope	Gastroenterology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging