How to format your references using the Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases citation style

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

[1]

Anand M. Planetary science. Analyzing Moon rocks. Science 2014;344:365–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Corfe IJ, Butler RJ. Comment on “A well-preserved Archaeopteryx specimen with theropod features.” Science 2006;313:1238; author reply 1238.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Son Y-W, Cohen ML, Louie SG. Half-metallic graphene nanoribbons. Nature 2006;444:347–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Baker PA, Seltzer GO, Fritz SC, Dunbar RB, Grove MJ, Tapia PM, et al. The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years. Science 2001;291:640–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Moreau N. Tools for Signal Compression. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Ginat DT, Freitag SK, editors. Post-treatment Imaging of the Orbit. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Blackshaw I, Pachmann T. CAS Provisional and Conservatory Measures and Other Options to Be Granted Interim Legal Relief. In: Duval A, Rigozzi A, editors. Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration 2015, The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press; 2016, p. 93–110.

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 Vascular Surgery Cases.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Experiment Confirms Fundamental Symmetry In Nature. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/experiment-confirms-symmetry-nature/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Electronic Government: Success of the Office of Management and Budget’s 25 Initiatives Depends on Effective Management and Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gonzalez ER. Technology and adiposity: Effects of television time, video or computer game time, and computer use on body fat among Latino youth. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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

[1]

Kelly K. Edge or Liability? New York Times 2017: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	Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases
ISSN (print)	2352-667X
Scope