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

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

Mundy D. Recruiters and academia. Lessons learned from a denied grant. Zen and the art of grant application. Nature. 2005 May 19;435(7040):382.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neumann GA, Mazarico E. Planetary science. Seeing the missing half. Science. 2009 Feb 13;323(5916):885–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robinson DP, Das S, Watts AB. Earthquake rupture stalled by a subducting fracture zone. Science. 2006 May 26;312(5777):1203–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ressl S, Terwisscha van Scheltinga AC, Vonrhein C, Ott V, Ziegler C. Molecular basis of transport and regulation in the Na(+)/betaine symporter BetP. Nature. 2009 Mar 5;458(7234):47–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levitin V. High Temperature Strain of Metals and Alloys. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Liu D, Wang L, Tan KC, editors. Design and Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. XXIV, 478 p. (Studies in Computational Intelligence; vol. 177).

A chapter in an edited book

Yousaf J, Li J, Zhang H, Hou L. Exploration and Visualization of Administrator Network in Wikipedia. In: Sheng QZ, Wang G, Jensen CS, Xu G, editors. Web Technologies and Applications: 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2012, Kunming, China, April 11-13, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 46–59. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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.

Blog post

Davis J. “Last” African Dinosaur Before They Went Extinct Discovered In Morocco [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-last-african-dinosaur-before-the-extinction-discovered-in-morocco/

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. Success of the Programed School Input Program Justifies Expansion. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Sep. Report No.: FPCD-82-53.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ganatra VA. Impact of the media on body image and eating disorders [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Kishkovsky S. Russian Writer, Facing Charges, Warns Free Expression Is at Risk. New York Times. 2002 Jul 16;A7.

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 Vascular Surgery
Abbreviation	J. Vasc. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0741-5214
ISSN (online)	1097-6809
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Surgery