How to format your references using the International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine. 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

[1]

Prosnitz D. Science and law. WMD sensors--search and seizure. Science 2005;310:978.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

DeKosky ST, Marek K. Looking backward to move forward: early detection of neurodegenerative disorders. Science 2003;302:830–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tanimura H, Kanasaki J, Tanimura K. State-resolved ultrafast dynamics of impact ionization in InSb. Sci Rep 2014;4:6849.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhou Q, Liu ZL, Ning K, Wang A, Zeng X, Xu J. Genomic and transcriptome analyses reveal that MAPK- and phosphatidylinositol-signaling pathways mediate tolerance to 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde for industrial yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Sci Rep 2014;4:6556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Knudsen S. Cancer Diagnostics with DNA Microarrays. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Hage J, Akkermans B, editors. Introduction to Law. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Davis B, Iqbal AA, Funk A, Tablan V, Bontcheva K, Cunningham H, et al. RoundTrip Ontology Authoring. In: Sheth A, Staab S, Dean M, Paolucci M, Maynard D, Finin T, et al., editors. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008: 7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 50–65.

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 International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Cassini Sees Canyons On Titan. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-sees-canyons-on-titan/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Assistance: Information on Payments Made Under the Disaster Relief and Insurance Reimbursement Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

LaPoint JL. The effects of aviation -based error management training on perioperative safety attitudes. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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

[1]

Tommasini A. Holding the Stage Like a Singing Shaman. New York Times 2017:C5.

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	International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine
ISSN (print)	2314-4599
Scope