How to format your references using the Journal of the Association for Vascular Access citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Association for Vascular Access. 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

Russell LM. Atmospheric science: Sea-spray particles cause freezing in clouds. Nature. 2015;525(7568):194-195.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murakami M, Kouyama T. Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin. Nature. 2008;453(7193):363-367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hernlund JW, Thomas C, Tackley PJ. A doubling of the post-perovskite phase boundary and structure of the Earth’s lowermost mantle. Nature. 2005;434(7035):882-886.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Stutzmann N, Tervoort TA, Bastiaansen K, Smith P. Patterning of polymer-supported metal films by microcutting. Nature. 2000;407(6804):613-616.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson JL. Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1997.

An edited book

Golden CJ. The Intercorrelation of Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD in Neuropsychological Evaluations. (Driskell LD, K. Lashley L, eds.). Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Tomppo E, Gabler K, Schadauer K, et al. Summary of Accomplishments. In: Tomppo E, Gschwantner T, Lawrence M, McRoberts RE, eds. National Forest Inventories: Pathways for Common Reporting. Springer Netherlands; 2010:45-54.

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 the Association for Vascular Access.

Blog post

Andrew E. Watch Live Feed As Asteroid Approaches Closer Than The Moon. IFLScience. March 5, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-feed-asteroid-approaches-closer-moon/

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. Medicare: Impact of Changing Transportation Policy for Portable Equipment Is Uncertain. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Oh Y. Prediction of Steady State Response in Dynamic Mode Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Applications in Nano-Metrology. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2006.

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

Pilon M, Belson K. Two Sprinters Agree to Runoff For Olympic Spot. New York Times. July 2, 2012:D1.

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 the Association for Vascular Access
ISSN (print)	1552-8855
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous)