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

Lam L. From physics to revolution and back. Science 2015;348:1170.

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller B, Sheen J. Cytokinin and auxin interaction in root stem-cell specification during early embryogenesis. Nature 2008;453:1094–1097.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baram M, Chatain D, Kaplan WD. Nanometer-thick equilibrium films: the interface between thermodynamics and atomistics. Science 2011;332:206–209.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tan Q, Huang X, Zhou W et al. A plasmonic based ultracompact polarization beam splitter on silicon-on-insulator waveguides. Sci Rep 2013;3:2206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dexter AL. Monitoring and Control of Information-Poor Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

Pisegna JR, editor. Management of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors. Springer, New York, NY, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Summers JA. The Sclera and Its Role in Regulation of the Refractive State. In: Spaide RF, Ohno-Matsui K, Yannuzzi LA, editors. Pathologic Myopia. Springer, New York, NY, 2014:59–74.

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

Andrew D. Here’s How To Convince The Brain That Prosthetic Legs Are Real. IFLScience IFLScience, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-how-to-convince-the-brain-that-prosthetic-legs-are-real/. 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. Army Networks: Size and Scope of Modernization Investment Merit Increased Oversight. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013 Jan.Report No.: GAO-13-179.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shlapak A. Mental health of foster youth in Ventura County [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA], Long Beach, CA, 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

ADAM LIPTAK; Janet Roberts contributed reporting for this series. Research was contributed by Jack Styczynski, Amster L, Anderson D et al. Serving Life, With No Chance of Redemption. New York Times. 2005;A1.

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