How to format your references using the ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schiermeier Q: I was sued for libel under an unjust law Nature 487: 141, 2012

A journal article with 2 authors

Miklius A, Cervelli P: Vulcanology: Interaction between Kilauea and Mauna Loa Nature 421: 229, 2003

A journal article with 3 authors

Tilman D, Reich PB, Knops JMH: Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment Nature 441: 629–632, 2006

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Johnston CA, Temple BR, Chen J-G, et al.: Comment on “A G protein coupled receptor is a plasma membrane receptor for the plant hormone abscisic acid” Science 318: 914; author reply 914, 2007

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mang T, Bobzin K, Bartels T: Industrial Tribology Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2010.

An edited book

Peters GW, Matsui T (eds): Modern Methodology and Applications in Spatial-Temporal Modeling Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Musselman JG: Natural Law for Teaching Ethics: An Essential Tool and Not a Seamless Web, in: Cherry MJ (ed) The Normativity of the Natural: Human Goods, Human Virtues, and Human Flourishing. Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2009, pp. 55–74.

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 ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs).

Blog post

Andrew E: Short, Sharp Shocks Let Slip The Stories Of Supernovae IFLScience, 2015 Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/short-sharp-shocks-let-slip-stories-supernovae/. 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

Government Accountability Office: Transportation for Older Adults: Measuring Results Could Help Determine If Coordination Efforts Improve Mobility Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mills LM: A mentoring program for foster youth transitioning into adulthood: A grant proposal, 2014

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

Wilson M: A Violent Encounter in Little Italy, and a ‘Tough Guy’ Winds Up on the Lam New York Times. September 6, 2017:A19.

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	ASAIO Journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs)
Abbreviation	ASAIO J.
ISSN (print)	1058-2916
ISSN (online)	1538-943X
Scope	Biophysics Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials General Medicine