How to format your references using the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 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

Buffett BA. Geophysics. The enigmatic inner core. Science. 2010;328:982–983

A journal article with 2 authors

Grayson M, Pincock S. Nature Index 2015 Collaborations. Nature. 2015;527:S49

A journal article with 3 authors

Li W-W, Yu H-Q, Rittmann BE. Chemistry: Reuse water pollutants. Nature. 2015;528:29–31

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Walther TC, Askjaer P, Gentzel M, et al. RanGTP mediates nuclear pore complex assembly. Nature. 2003;424:689–694

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam MR, Chhetri AB, Khan MM. The Greening of Petroleum Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010

An edited book

MacGillivray H, Phillips B, Martin MA, eds. Topics from Australian Conferences on Teaching Statistics: OZCOTS 2008-2012. New York, NY: Springer; 2014

A chapter in an edited book

Pedersen BK. Physical Activity and Pregnancy. In: Ovesen PG, Møller Jensen D, eds. Maternal Obesity and Pregnancy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012:63–74

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 Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery.

Blog post

Taub B. How Does Stoned Sex Compare To Drunk Sex? IFLScience. 2016 Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-does-stoned-sex-compare-to-drunk-sex/. 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. The High-Speed Rail Investment Act of 2001 (S. 250). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miramontes AJ. Examining eye fixation patterns during the Situation Present Assessment Method (SPAM) under varying levels of workload. 2017

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

Vecsey G. Never an Empty Seat. New York Times. July 3, 2011:SP1

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	Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
ISSN (print)	0743-684X
ISSN (online)	1098-8947
Scope	Surgery