How to format your references using the Vascular Cell citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vascular Cell. 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. Lu HP. Biochemistry. Enzymes in coherent motion. Science. 2012;335:300–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Paterson I, Anderson EA. Chemistry. The renaissance of natural products as drug candidates. Science. 2005;310:451–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wang K, Dickinson RE, Liang S. Clear sky visibility has decreased over land globally from 1973 to 2007. Science. 2009;323:1468–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Trumpp A, Refaeli Y, Oskarsson T, Gasser S, Murphy M, Martin GR, et al. c-Myc regulates mammalian body size by controlling cell number but not cell size. Nature. 2001;414:768–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Pashley RM, Karaman ME. Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Geddes CD. Who’s Who in Fluorescence 2007. Lakowicz JR, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Baust JM, Corwin WL, VanBuskirk R, Baust JG. Biobanking: The Future of Cell Preservation Strategies. In: Karimi-Busheri F, editor. Biobanking in the 21st Century. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 37–53.

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 Vascular Cell.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Episodic Memory Formation In The Hippocampus. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Corps of Engineers Electronic Signature System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Nov. Report No.: AIMD-97-18R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hofmann R. The fascist reflection Japan and Italy, 1919-1950 [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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. Crow K. Big Trucks Take More Detours, and Residents Near Holland Tunnel Just Smile. New York Times. 2002 Sep 1;145.

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	Vascular Cell
Abbreviation	Vasc. Cell
ISSN (online)	2045-824X
Scope	Cell Biology Computer Networks and Communications Developmental Neuroscience Neurology