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

Lee PA. Physics. An end to the drought of quantum spin liquids. Science 2008;321:1306–1307.

A journal article with 2 authors

Euston DR, Steenland HW. Neuroscience. Memories--getting wired during sleep. Science 2014;344:1087–1088.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yanoviak SP, Dudley R, Kaspari M. Directed aerial descent in canopy ants. Nature 2005;433:624–626.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Krzemień J, Dubois L, Makki R et al. Control of blood cell homeostasis in Drosophila larvae by the posterior signalling centre. Nature 2007;446:325–328.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooney N. How to Be Great at Doing Good. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

Stieltjes B. Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Introduction and Atlas. Brunner RM, Fritzsche KH, Laun FB, editors. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Yousuf TB. 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) in Bangladesh. In: Pariatamby A, Tanaka M, editors. Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands: Challenges and Strategic Solutions. Springer, Singapore, 2014:61–75.

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

Taub B. Beer Helps Console Snails Before Being Executed For Science. IFLScience IFLScience, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beer-helps-console-snails-before-being-executed-science/. 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. The Readiness Goal. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992 Jan.Report No.: 147977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simon JT. Classification of Mechanical and Electrical Response of High Performance Fiber Reinforced-Geopolymer Composites (HPFR-GPC) [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA], Lafayette, LA, 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

Gustines GG. Familiar Face on ‘Sesame Street’ Tells of Her Own Childhood. New York Times. 2015;C2.

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