How to format your references using the Equine Veterinary Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Equine Veterinary Education. 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

Spurgeon, D. (2003) Scientists call for Canada to boost polar-shelf funding. Nature 421, 464.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rus, D. and Tolley, M.T. (2015) Design, fabrication and control of soft robots. Nature 521, 467–475.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kerr, J.T., Kharouba, H.M. and Currie, D.J. (2007) The macroecological contribution to global change solutions. Science 316, 1581–1584.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Gu, L., Livenere, J.E., Zhu, G., Tumkur, T.U., Hu, H., Cortes, C.L., Jacob, Z., Prokes, S.M. and Noginov, M.A. (2014) Angular distribution of emission from hyperbolic metamaterials. Sci. Rep. 4, 7327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guinebretière, R. (2010) X-ray Diffraction by Polycrystalline Materials. ISTE, London, UK.

An edited book

(2011) Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhu, Z., Cao, Z. and Zeng, D.D. (2013) An Analysis of Beijing HFMD Patients Mobility Pattern during Seeking Treatment. In: Smart Health: International Conference, ICSH 2013, Beijing, China, August 3-4, 2013. Proceedings, Eds.: D. Zeng, C.C. Yang, V.S. Tseng, C. Xing, H. Chen, F.-Y. Wang and X. Zheng, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp 24–30.

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 Equine Veterinary Education.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014) Gigantic Landslide Was Bigger Than Rhode Island. IFLScience . https://www.iflscience.com/environment/gigantic-ancient-landslide-was-bigger-rhode-island/. Accessed 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 (2010) Postsecondary Education: College and University Endowments Have Shown Long-Term Growth, While Size, Restrictions, and Distributions Vary. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mark, M. (2017) A peer mentorship program for youth transitioning out of foster care: A grant proposal.

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. (2000) Surviving With the Moscow Symphony on $5 a Day. New York Times E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spurgeon 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Spurgeon 2003, Rus and Tolley 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rus and Tolley 2015)
Three or more authors: (Gu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Equine Veterinary Education
Abbreviation	Equine Vet. Educ.
ISSN (print)	0957-7734
ISSN (online)	2042-3292
Scope	Equine