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

Walters HRJ. Physics. Antimatter atomic physics. Science (2010) 330:762–763.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wookey J, Helffrich G. Inner-core shear-wave anisotropy and texture from an observation of PKJKP waves. Nature (2008) 454:873–876.

A journal article with 3 authors

Che H, Drake JF, Swisdak M. A current filamentation mechanism for breaking magnetic field lines during reconnection. Nature (2011) 474:184–187.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wada H, Masuda K, Satoh R, Kakugawa K, Ikawa T, Katsura Y, Kawamoto H. Adult T-cell progenitors retain myeloid potential. Nature (2008) 452:768–772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan J-F. Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 1. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2014).

An edited book

Traina AJM, Traina C, Cordeiro RLF eds. Similarity Search and Applications: 7th International Conference, SISAP 2014, Los Cabos, Mexico, October 29-31, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing (2014). XVIII, 302 p. 121 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Callender C. “Sturmian Canons.,” In: Yust J, Wild J, Burgoyne JA, editors. Mathematics and Computation in Music: 4th International Conference, MCM 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 12-14, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2013). p. 64–75

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. There Are Now Just Three Wolves Left On Isle Royale. IFLScience (2015) https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/only-three-wolves-are-left-isle-royale/ [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. Improvements Needed in the Department of the Interior’s Measurement of Offshore Oil for Royalty Purposes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (1984).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dobbs J. The Potential Use of PEI Modified Biochar for Different Environmental Applications. [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University (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

Baker P. Forces He Could Not Control. New York Times (2017)BR11.

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

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