How to format your references using the Seminars in Vascular Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seminars in 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	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]

Neylon C. Science publishing: Open access must enable open use. Nature 2012;492:348–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Stoneburner RL, Low-Beer D. Population-level HIV declines and behavioral risk avoidance in Uganda. Science 2004;304:714–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Matzke M, Matzke AJ, Kooter JM. RNA: guiding gene silencing. Science 2001;293:1080–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Thompson JR, Pacocha S, Pharino C, Klepac-Ceraj V, Hunt DE, Benoit J, et al. Genotypic diversity within a natural coastal bacterioplankton population. Science 2005;307:1311–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cauvin C, Escobar F, Serradj A. Cartography and the Impact of the Quantitative Revolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Pehrson L, Oxelheim L, Gustavsson S, editors. How Unified Is the European Union?: European Integration Between Visions and Popular Legitimacy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Beer J, McCracken K, von Steiger R. The Cosmic Radiation Near Earth. In: McCracken K, Steiger R von, editors. Cosmogenic Radionuclides: Theory and Applications in the Terrestrial and Space Environments, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 19–78.

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 Seminars in Vascular Surgery.

Blog post

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Andrew E. How Events In Panama Created The Modern World (Millions Of Years Ago). IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-events-panama-created-modern-world-millions-years-ago/ (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. NASA Aeronautics: Impact of Technology Transfer Activities Is Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Chellamuthu VK. Structured Population Models: Numerical Methods and Application to Frogs Infected with Chytridiomycosis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 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]

Surico J. Model Pet? Try a Rat. New York Times 2017:MB1.

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	Seminars in Vascular Surgery
Abbreviation	Semin. Vasc. Surg.
ISSN (print)	0895-7967
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Surgery