How to format your references using the American Journal of Veterinary Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Veterinary Research. 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	Download the output style file
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. Smaglik P. The power of goodbye. Nature 2004;429:681.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Read AF, Thomas MB. Microbiology. Mosquitoes cut short. Science 2009;323:51–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Koechlin E, Ody C, Kouneiher F. The architecture of cognitive control in the human prefrontal cortex. Science 2003;302:1181–1185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Hashimoto M, Nara T, Hirawake H, et al. Antisense oligonucleotides targeting parasite inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor inhibits mammalian host cell invasion by Trypanosoma cruzi. Sci Rep 2014;4:4231.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bertolini L, Elsener B, Pedeferri P, et al. Corrosion of Steel in Concrete. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2003.

An edited book

1. Ferdinand J-P, Petschow U, Dickel S eds. The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation: 3D Printing and its Implications for Society, Industry, and Sustainable Development. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Adamson SO, Kharlampidi DD, Dementiev AI. Application of the Uniformly Charged Sphere Stabilization for Calculating the Lowest 1 S Resonances of H −. In: Hotokka M, Brändas EJ, Maruani J, et al., eds. Advances in Quantum Methods and Applications in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology. Progress in Theoretical Chemistry and Physics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2013;101–118.

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 American Journal of Veterinary Research.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. New Study: No Increase In Brain Cancer Across 29 Years Of Mobile Use In Australia. IFLScience 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-study-no-increase-brain-cancer-across-29-years-mobile-use-australia/. Accessed October 30, 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. Desegregation Activities: Administration of Education Grant Funds at the Cleveland School District. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Park A. Borderland beyond: Korean migrants and the creation of a modern state boundary between Korea and Russia, 1860-1937. 2009.

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. Qiu L. That’s Not How It Went On the Deal With Iran. New York Times. October 10, 2017:A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	American Journal of Veterinary Research
Abbreviation	Am. J. Vet. Res.
ISSN (print)	0002-9645
ISSN (online)	1943-5681
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary

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