How to format your references using the Australian Veterinary Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Veterinary Journal (AVJ). 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

Check E. Pathogen-tracking questioned. Nature 2002;420:451.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greenberger MD, Vogelstein R. Public health. Pharmacist refusals: a threat to women’s health. Science 2005;308:1557–1558.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grosman C, Zhou M, Auerbach A. Mapping the conformational wave of acetylcholine receptor channel gating. Nature 2000;403:773–776.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Boris AV, Matiks Y, Benckiser E et al. Dimensionality control of electronic phase transitions in nickel-oxide superlattices. Science 2011;332:937–940.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toutain L, Minaburo A. Local Networks and the Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

O’Riordan L, Zmuda P, Heinemann S, editors. New Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility: Locating the Missing Link. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Boehlke J, Osińska M. Examples of Experiments in Macroeconomics. In: Nermend K, Łatuszyńska M, editors. Selected Issues in Experimental Economics: Proceedings of the 2015 Computational Methods in Experimental Economics (CMEE) Conference. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016:57–71.

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 Australian Veterinary Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Planet Nine May Have Been A Rogue World Captured By Our Solar System. IFLScience IFLScience, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/planet-nine-may-have-been-a-rogue-world-captured-by-our-solar-system/. Retrieved 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

Government Accountability Office. Health Care: Children’s Medical Services Programs in 10 States. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989 Jul.Report No.: HRD-89-81.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haghighat R. An optimization model to allocate budget in school rehabilitation projects [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA], Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017;MM26.

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	Australian Veterinary Journal
Abbreviation	Aust. Vet. J.
ISSN (print)	0005-0423
ISSN (online)	1751-0813
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary