I am looking for the citation style for the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR). This is a significant journal and serves as the official publication of The Society of Interventional Radiology. I was surprised to find that it is not included in the Paperpile’s journals database.
We get our citation styles from the Citation Style Language (CSL) repository, available at citationstyles.org. This online repository is community-based and regularly updated by volunteers.
If you can’t find your style, you have two options: (i) find an identical or very similar style or (ii) create your own style. In both cases you can use the citation style editor available at editor.citationstyles.org.
I searched for the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology citation style in the CSL repository, and did not obtain a search result. It’s possible that the citation style is available there under a different name. I also visited the journal website, but I could not find any information about reference list formatting there (although looking at some of the papers, the style is numerical, so perhaps a style like Vancouver may work). One suggestion is to reach out to the journal’s editorial office and ask them which citation style to use, or ask for an updated .csl file of the most recent style version - you can then upload that to Paperpile and use it as a custom style. You can also try requesting a new style in the CSL community.
If you create or obtain a CSL style, download the CSL file to your computer and upload it from your Paperpile library by going to Settings > Citation styles, then clicking Upload CSL file. The style will then be available like any other in Google Docs and Word.