How to format your references using the Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America (FSC). 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

O’Brien JL. Physics. Precision without entanglement. Science 2007;318(5855):1393–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greene CH., Pershing AJ. Oceans. Climate drives sea change. Science 2007;315(5815):1084–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chookajorn T., Murdoch HA., Schuh CA. Design of stable nanocrystalline alloys. Science 2012;337(6097):951–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wright BJ., O’Brien S., Hazi A., Kent S. Increased systolic blood pressure reactivity to acute stress is related with better self-reported health. Sci Rep 2014;4:6882.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Douglas J., Noy EA. Building Surveys and Reports. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Makin HLJ., Gower DB. Steroid Analysis. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Cleland N., Zakeri G., Pritchard G., Young B. Integrating Consumption and Reserve Strategies for Large Consumers in Electricity Markets. In: Fonseca RJ, Weber G-W, and Telhada J, editors. Computational Management Science: State of the Art 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 23–30.

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 Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America.

Blog post

Taub B. Light Pollution Leads Baby Sea Turtles Astray, Study Shows. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/light-pollution-leads-baby-sea-turtles-astray-study-shows/. 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. Export Controls: Sale of Telecommunications Equipment to China. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bible PW. Integrating Heterogeneous Datasets for Functional Profiling of Transcription Factors and Their Target Genes. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 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

Walsh MW. After a Pension Fraud Case, Wondering Who’s Up Next. New York Times 2010: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	Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America
Abbreviation	Facial Plast. Surg. Clin. North Am.
ISSN (print)	1064-7406
ISSN (online)	1558-1926
Scope	Surgery