How to format your references using the Acta Scientiae Veterinariae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Scientiae Veterinariae. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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 Kahan D. 2010. Fixing the communications failure. Nature. 463(7279): 296–297.

A journal article with 2 authors

1 Etiope G. & Ciccioli P. 2009. Earth’s degassing: a missing ethane and propane source. Science (New York, N.Y.). 323(5913): 478.

A journal article with 3 authors

1 Weng J.-K., Philippe R.N. & Noel J.P. 2012. The rise of chemodiversity in plants. Science (New York, N.Y.). 336(6089): 1667–1670.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1 van den Berg B., Black P.N., Clemons W.M. Jr & Rapoport T.A. 2004. Crystal structure of the long-chain fatty acid transporter FadL. Science (New York, N.Y.). 304(5676): 1506–1509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1 Panek W. & Wentworth T. 2010. Mastering Microsoft® Windows® 7 Administration. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

1 Roy U. 2016. Impact of Climate Change on Small Scale Hydro-turbine Selections. Singapore: Springer, IX, 45 p. 14 illus. in colorp.

A chapter in an edited book

1 Hattotuwagama C.K., Doytchinova I.A., Guan P. & Flower D.R. 2008. In Silico QSAR-Based Predictions of Class I and Class II MHC Epitopes. In: Schönbach C., Ranganathan S., & Brusic V. (Eds). Immunoinformatics. New York, NY: Springer, pp.63–89.

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 Acta Scientiae Veterinariae.

Blog post

1 Carpineti C. 2017. This Breathtaking Bioluminescent Beach Will Make Your Day. IFLScience. Available at: <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/this-breathtaking-bioluminescent-beach-will-make-your-day/>. Accessed 10/2018.

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. 2009. High Speed Passenger Rail: Developing Viable High Speed Rail Projects under the Recovery Act and Beyond. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1 Grayson N. 2014. Development of a preliminary scale of counterproductive experiences in supervision: Attitudes of clinical psychology doctoral students, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University.

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 Wagner J. 2017. Returning for Friendship, and Drums. New York Times, SP3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3,4].
This sentence cites four references [4,5,7,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Scientiae Veterinariae
Abbreviation	Acta Sci. Vet.
ISSN (print)	1678-0345
ISSN (online)	1679-9216
Scope	General Veterinary