How to format your references using the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (EJVS). 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 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

Noller HF. RNA structure: reading the ribosome. Science 2005;309(5740):1508–14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emery NJ, Clayton NS. The mentality of crows: convergent evolution of intelligence in corvids and apes. Science 2004;306(5703):1903–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gehring M, Bubb KL, Henikoff S. Extensive demethylation of repetitive elements during seed development underlies gene imprinting. Science 2009;324(5933):1447–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nam S-W, Qian C, Kim SH, van Noort D, Chiam K-H, Park S. C. elegans sensing of and entrainment along obstacles require different neurons at different body locations. Sci Rep 2013;3:3247.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackenzie B, Njikizana T, Coetsee D, Chamboko R, Colyvas B, Hanekom B, et al. 2014 Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Banerjee S, Chakrabarti A, editors. Development and Sustainability: India in a Global Perspective. New Delhi: Springer India; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Griffith T, Rumble D, Mahajan P, Fidopiastis CM. Bio-reckoning: Perceptual User Interface Design for Military Training. In: Schmorrow DD, and Fidopiastis CM, editors. Foundations of Augmented Cognition: 7th International Conference, AC 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. pp. 31–40.

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 European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.

Blog post

Fang J. Early Cretaceous Bloodsucking Bugs Found in China. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-cretaceous-bloodsucking-bugs-found-china/. 10/30/2018.

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. Compensatory Education: Additional Funds Help More Private School Students Receive Chapter 1 Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ma Y. Vesicular Stomatitis Virus as a Vector to Deliver Virus-Like Particles of Human Norovirus: A New Live Vectored Vaccine for Human Norovirus. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2013.

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

Creswell J, Gustines GG. A High-End Tussle. New York Times 2014:B1.

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	European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Vasc. Endovasc. Surg.
ISSN (print)	1078-5884
ISSN (online)	1532-2165
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Surgery