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

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

Pielke, R., Jr (2015) Gather data to reveal true extent of doping in sport. Nature 517, 529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berners-Lee, T. and Hendler, J. (2001) Publishing on the semantic web. Nature 410, 1023–1024.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bánsági, T., Jr, Vanag, V.K. and Epstein, I.R. (2011) Tomography of reaction-diffusion microemulsions reveals three-dimensional Turing patterns. Science 331, 1309–1312.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Jin, J., Desai, B.N., Navarro, B., Donovan, A., Andrews, N.C. and Clapham, D.E. (2008) Deletion of Trpm7 disrupts embryonic development and thymopoiesis without altering Mg2+ homeostasis. Science 322, 756–760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D.A. (2008) Forensic Procedures for Boundary and Title Investigation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cruciani, R.A. and Knotkova, H., eds. (2013) Handbook of Methadone Prescribing and Buprenorphine Therapy, Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Kosch, S. and Beck, J.C. (2014) A New MIP Model for Parallel-Batch Scheduling with Non-identical Job Sizes. In: Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming: 11th International Conference, CPAIOR 2014, Cork, Ireland, May 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Ed: H. Simonis, Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp 55–70.

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 Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) An Artificial Pancreas Has Just Made Giving Birth Safer For Diabetic Women. IFLScience . https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-pancreas-has-just-made-giving-birth-safer-diabetic-women/. 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 (1973) Request for Reformation of Contract, 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

Garcia-Benitez, C. (2010) Support program to facilitate achievement for emancipated foster youth to succeed in college.

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

Prochnik, G. (2017) Our Freudian Complex. New York Times BR1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Equine Veterinary Journal
Abbreviation	Equine Vet. J.
ISSN (print)	0425-1644
ISSN (online)	2042-3306
Scope	General Medicine Equine