How to format your references using the Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica. 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. Aebersold R. Constellations in a cellular universe. Nature. 2003;422:115–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gibson MC, Perrimon N. Extrusion and death of DPP/BMP-compromised epithelial cells in the developing Drosophila wing. Science. 2005;307:1785–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wu T, Werner H-J, Manthe U. First-principles theory for the H + CH4 --> H2 + CH3 reaction. Science. 2004;306:2227–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jarvis ED, Ribeiro S, da Silva ML, Ventura D, Vielliard J, Mello CV. Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain. Nature. 2000;406:628–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lyatkher VM. Seismic Loads. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Law P-L, editor. New Connectivities in China: Virtual, Actual and Local Interactions. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schwartz NB, Domowicz MS. Chemistry and Function of Glycosaminoglycans in the Nervous System. In: Yu RK, Schengrund C-L, editors. Glycobiology of the Nervous System. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 89–115.

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 Veterinaria Scandinavica.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. The Most Detailed Infrared Maps Of The 200 Brightest Galaxies In The Sky [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-most-detailed-infrared-maps-of-the-200-brightest-galaxies-in-the-sky/

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. Residential Treatment Programs: Concerns Regarding Abuse and Death in Certain Programs for Troubled Youth. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Oct. Report No.: GAO-08-146T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pryor GL. Effects of a balance-specific exercise program on blood pressure medication usage [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California 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

1. Landler M, Shear MD. Mild in Mideast, but Elbows Are Out in Europe. New York Times. 2017 May 27;A1.

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	Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica
Abbreviation	Acta Vet. Scand.
ISSN (online)	1751-0147
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary