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

Webster RG. Virology. A molecular whodunit. Science. 2001 Sep 7;293(5536):1773–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seitz AR, Watanabe T. Psychophysics: Is subliminal learning really passive? Nature. 2003 Mar 6;422(6927):36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Usdin M, Guillerm M, Chirac P. Neglected tests for neglected patients. Nature. 2006 May 18;441(7091):283–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dick RA, Zadrozny KK, Xu C, Schur FKM, Lyddon TD, Ricana CL, et al. Author Correction: Inositol phosphates are assembly co-factors for HIV-1. Nature. 2018 Nov;563(7731):E22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fiske JR, Fiske CA. The Big Book of Benefit Auctions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Gisler P, Borella SS, Wiedmer C, editors. Intersections of Law and Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2012. X, 216 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies).

A chapter in an edited book

Bault JP, Loeuillet L. Brain Biometrics. In: Loeuillet L, editor. The Normal and Pathological Fetal Brain: Ultrasonographic Features. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 123–30.

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

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. An AI Was Trained To Create New Colors. It Was Wonderfully Terrible. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/an-ai-was-trained-to-create-new-colors-it-was-wonderfully-terrible/

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. Medicare: Impact of Changing Transportation Policy for Portable Equipment Is Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 May. Report No.: HEHS-98-82.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hofmann TB. Adductor and abductor spasmodic dysphonia: A comparison of quality of life issues for those receiving Botox treatment [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2008.

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

Flegenheimer M. On Trump’s Right Flank, a Survivor Well Attuned to Resentment. New York Times. 2017 Oct 9;A1.

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