How to format your references using the Microcirculation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microcirculation. 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

Bréchot C. Train Africa’s scientists in crisis response. Nature. 2015;524(7563):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lutter CK, Lutter R. Fetal and early childhood undernutrition, mortality, and lifelong health. Science. 2012;337(6101):1495–1499.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Q, He K, Huo H. Policy: Cleaning China’s air. Nature. 2012;484(7393):161–162.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Schwickart M, Huang X, Lill JR, et al. Deubiquitinase USP9X stabilizes MCL1 and promotes tumour cell survival. Nature. 2010;463(7277):103–107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morton A, Mengersen K, Whitby M, Playford G. Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Andres E, Damiand G, Lienhardt P, editors. Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 12th International Conference, DGCI 2005, Poitiers, France, April 13-15, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Quarteroni A, Saleri F, Gervasio P. Linear systemsIn: Saleri F, Gervasio P, eds. Scientific Computing with MATLAB and Octave. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014:137–191.

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 Microcirculation.

Blog post

Andrew E. In The Path Of The Polar Bears: What It’s Like To Be An Arctic Scientist. [IFLScience]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/path-polar-bears-what-it-s-be-arctic-scientist/. 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. Aviation Safety: Improved Data Quality and Analysis Capabilities Are Needed as FAA Plans a Risk-Based Approach to Safety Oversight. GAO-10-414Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; May 6, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dovale MJ. Postwar japan’s hybrid modernity of in-betweenness: Historical, literary, and social perspectives. Doctoral DissertationCalifornia State University, Long Beach; 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

Silver-Greenberg J, Protess B. Gun Control Groups Find a Wealthy Ally in Big Law. [New York Times], December 7, 2016, BU1.

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	Microcirculation
ISSN (print)	1073-9688
ISSN (online)	1549-8719
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