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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Irish 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	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. Nichols D. Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry. Nature. 2011;469:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hale MS, Rivkin RB. Comment on “Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean.” Science. 2006;312:1748; author reply 1748.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pollack SE, Dries D, Hulet RG. Universality in three- and four-body bound states of ultracold atoms. Science. 2009;326:1683–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chandran K, Sullivan NJ, Felbor U, Whelan SP, Cunningham JM. Endosomal proteolysis of the Ebola virus glycoprotein is necessary for infection. Science. 2005;308:1643–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Oyama T. Post-Crisis Risk Management. 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Stephens G, Mochida S, editors. Modulation of Presynaptic Calcium Channels. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Yu CW-M, Velde C. The Changing Context of Business Education: Competency Requirements for the New Paradigm. In: Velde CR, editor. International Perspectives on Competence in the Workplace: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 57–85.

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 Irish Veterinary Journal.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. According To NASA, There’s A 99.9% Probability Of A Significant Earthquake Hitting Los Angeles By 2018 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nasa-gives-999-probability-major-earthquake-hitting-los-angeles-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. Quality Assurance Independence. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Apr. Report No.: HEHS-94-151R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Byeon G. More than words: A comparative study of Liszt’s Liebesträume and the songs from which they were transcribed [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

1. Dominus S. A Resilient Figure Stumbles, and Her Fans Wince in Turn. New York Times. 2016 Sep 12;A1.

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	Irish Veterinary Journal
Abbreviation	Ir. Vet. J.
ISSN (online)	2046-0481
Scope	General Veterinary

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