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. Miralda-Escudé J. The Dark Age of the universe. Science. 2003;300:1904–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Weeds A, Yeoh S. Structure. Action at the Y-branch. Science. 2001;294:1660–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Keith DW, Parson E, Morgan MG. Research on global sun block needed now. Nature. 2010;463:426–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Omacini M, Chaneton EJ, Ghersa CM, Müller CB. Symbiotic fungal endophytes control insect host-parasite interaction webs. Nature. 2001;409:78–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Speight JG. Rules of Thumb for Petroleum Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Edney A. Pro LCS: Live Communications Server Administration. Maximo R, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Norcliffe E, Konopka AE. Vision and Language in Cross-Linguistic Research on Sentence Production. In: Mishra RK, Srinivasan N, Huettig F, editors. Attention and Vision in Language Processing. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015. p. 77–96.

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. Go On A Spectacular Infrared Tour Of The Milky Way In This Video. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Attack Warning: Status of the Survivable Communications Integration System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jul. Report No.: IMTEC-92-61BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Robert NA. Cortile: World Building & the Traveler Archetype [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Rao T. Cool Ranch. New York Times. 2016 Aug 25;MM30.

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