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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian 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

Smaglik P. Bricks and mortar. Scandinavia’s material gains. Nature. 2004 Jun 24;429(6994):906.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gault F, Huttner S. A cat’s cradle for policy. Nature. 2008 Sep 25;455(7212):462–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu YY, Slotine JJ, Barabási AL. Controllability of complex networks. Nature. 2011 May 12;473(7346):167–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cardillo M, Mace GM, Jones KE, Bielby J, Bininda-Emonds ORP, Sechrest W, et al. Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species. Science. 2005 Aug 19;309(5738):1239–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Makower T. Touching the City. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Park JY, editor. Sports Injuries to the Shoulder and Elbow. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. XIX, 488 p. 154 illus., 134 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Hu W, Zha L. Theoretical Aspects of Polymer Crystallization. In: Mitchell GR, Tojeira A, editors. Controlling the Morphology of Polymers: Multiple Scales of Structure and Processing. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 101–43.

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 Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015. New Mapping Effort To Help Battle Lyme Disease.

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. Judicial Cases Reviewed for Awards of Damages, Attorneys’ Fees, and Nonmonetary Remedies in Special Education Lawsuits Brought Under Public Law 94-142. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Mar. Report No.: HRD-85-44.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hoang TT. Acoustic and Image Vehicle Classification System [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Vecsey G. Of Horns and Whines And the Humble Earplug. New York Times. 2010 Jun 16;B11.

In-text citations

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

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	Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research
ISSN (online)	0830-9000
Scope