How to format your references using the Viszeralmedizin citation style

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

Liu J. Disease outbreak: Finish the fight against Ebola. Nature. 2015 Aug;524(7563):27–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng CL, Novales Flamarique I. Opsin expression: new mechanism for modulating colour vision. Nature. 2004 Mar;428(6980):279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang C-W, Ka S-M, Chen A. Robust image registration of biological microscopic images. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug;4:6050.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Leong KG, Wang B-E, Johnson L, Gao W-Q. Generation of a prostate from a single adult stem cell. Nature. 2008 Dec;456(7223):804–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooke R. The History of Mathematics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Falanga M, Belloni T, Casella P, Gilfanov M, Jonker P, King A, editors. The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes. New York, NY: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Tian J, Chen J, Chen G, Wu P, Zhang H, Zhao Y. Roles of Conditional QTL in Crop Breeding and Cultivation. In: Chen J, Chen G, Wu P, Zhang H, Zhao Y, editors. Genetic Analyses of Wheat and Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding, Volume 2: Conditional QTL Analysis and MAS. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015; pp 173–6.

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 Viszeralmedizin.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Life “Not As We Know It” Could Exist On Mars, Titan And Other Worlds [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Aug

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. Pedestrians and Cyclists: Cities, States, and DOT Are Implementing Actions to Improve Safety. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Urshel CL. The Technical Adequacy of Standards-Derived Curriculum-Based Measures for Reading Comprehension and Math Computation in Middle School. 2006

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

Branch J, Dolnick S. Slush and Short Sleeves. New York Times. 2014 Feb;B12.

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	Viszeralmedizin
Abbreviation	Viszeralmedizin
ISSN (print)	1662-6664
ISSN (online)	1662-6672
Scope	Gastroenterology Surgery