How to format your references using the Frontiers in Veterinary Science citation style

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

Romani RW. Astronomy. Pulsar beams--big and bright. Science (2014) 344:159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

Steig EJ, Wolfe AP. Atmospheric science. Sprucing up Greenland. Science (2008) 320:1595–1596.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chan CM, Zhou C, Huang RH. Reconstituting bacterial RNA repair and modification in vitro. Science (2009) 326:247.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Pan J-W, Gasparoni S, Ursin R, Weihs G, Zeilinger A. Experimental entanglement purification of arbitrary unknown states. Nature (2003) 423:417–422.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gramß T, Bornholdt S, Groß M, Mitchell M, Pellizzari T. Non-Standard Computation. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. (2005).

An edited book

Pointcheval D, Mu Y, Chen K eds. Cryptology and Network Security: 5th International Conference, CANS 2006, Suzhou, China, December 8-10, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. (2006). XIII, 384 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Skrabanek P, Majerík F. “Simplified Version of White Wine Grape Berries Detector Based on SVM and HOG Features.,” In: Silhavy R, Senkerik R, Oplatkova ZK, Silhavy P, Prokopova Z, editors. Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the 5th Computer Science On-line Conference 2016 (CSOC2016), Vol 1. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Cham: Springer International Publishing (2016). p. 35–45

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 Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

Blog post

Fang J. Researchers Discover Extra DNA Base. IFLScience (2015)

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. International Aviation: Implications of Ratifying the Montreal Aviation Protocols. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. (1990).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burchman EK. A dialogue on improvisation, space and melody: Larry Koonse’s approach to improvisation. [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach. (2014).

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

Wasik JF. Helping Hand for Start-Ups From Those Who’ve Been There Before. New York Times (2016)B2.

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	Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Abbreviation	Front. Vet. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2297-1769
Scope