How to format your references using the Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science (BJVRAS). 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

Wilson RK. Retrospective. Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012). Science. 2012;337(6095):661.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dickson D, Abbott A. Britain asks to join European Southern Observatory. Nature. 2000;405(6785):382–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

David SS, O’Shea VL, Kundu S. Base-excision repair of oxidative DNA damage. Nature. 2007;447(7147):941–50.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Worden J, Noone D, Bowman K, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Science Team and Data contributors. Importance of rain evaporation and continental convection in the tropical water cycle. Nature. 2007;445(7127):528–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spatschek K-H. High Temperature Plasmas. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

Dössel O, Schlegel WC eds. World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/10 Biomaterials, Cellular and Tussue Engineering, Artificial Organs. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XV, 315 p. (IFMBE Proceedings; vol. 25/10).

A chapter in an edited book

Poggi A, Lembo D, Calvanese D, De Giacomo G, Lenzerini M, Rosati R. Linking Data to Ontologies. In: Spaccapietra S. Journal on Data Semantics X. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 133–73. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, Naor M, Nierstrasz O, Pandu Rangan C, Steffen B, Sudan M, Terzopoulos D, Tygar D, Vardi MY, Weikum G, editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science.

Blog post

Andrews R. CRISPR-Enabled Bacteria Transformed Into Self-Replicating Biological Hard Drive. 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

Government Accountability Office. Mass Transit: Effects of Tax Changes on Commuter Behavior. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Sep. Report No.: RCED-92-243.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jackson M. Creating community in a dual immersion program: A grant writing project. [Tese Creating community in a dual immersion program: A grant writing project]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Kishkovsky S. T. I. Zaslavskaya, 86; Advised Gorbachev. New York Times. 2013;A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Wilson, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dickson & Abbott, 2000; Wilson, 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Dickson & Abbott, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Worden et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science
ISSN (print)	1413-9596
ISSN (online)	1678-4456
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