How to format your references using the Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids (EVCNA). 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

Singmaster D. Obituary: Martin Gardner (1914-2010). Nature 2010;465:884. [PMID: 20559379].

A journal article with 2 authors

Canfield DE, Kump LR. Geochemistry. Carbon cycle makeover. Science 2013;339:533–4. [PMID: 23372005].

A journal article with 3 authors

Kasen D, Röpke FK, Woosley SE. The diversity of type Ia supernovae from broken symmetries. Nature 2009;460:869–72. [PMID: 19675647].

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Blanche P-A, Bablumian A, Voorakaranam R, et al. Holographic three-dimensional telepresence using large-area photorefractive polymer. Nature 2010;468:80–3. [PMID: 21048763].

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jensen RC. Risk-Reduction Methods for Occupational Safety and Health. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Spinthourakis JA, Lalor J, Berg W, editors. Cultural Diversity in the Classroom: A European Comparison. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Dountchev A, Panayotov M, Tsvetanov N, Zhelev P, Yurukov S. Consequences of Non-intervention Management for the Development of Subalpine Spruce Forests in Bulgaria. In: Koulov B, Zhelezov G, editors. Sustainable Mountain Regions: Challenges and Perspectives in Southeastern Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 67–76.

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 Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids.

Blog post

Fang J. Simple Blood Test Could Detect Suicide Risk. IFLScience 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/simple-blood-test-could-detect-suicide-risk/. [Last accessed on 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. Motor Vehicle Regulations: Regulatory Cost Estimates Could Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Douglas L. Thermogravimetric and Raman Investigations on the Mechanism of Decomposition of Lead Compounds on Tungsten Surfaces. 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

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Begins Choosing Which Payments to Make. New York Times. . December 2, 2015:B1.

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	Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids
ISSN (online)	2767-6641
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