How to format your references using the Journal for Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology and Biosafety citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal for Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology and Biosafety. 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

Abbott, A. (2001) ‘Last-minute floods sink research’, Nature, 413(6855), p. 443.

A journal article with 2 authors

Temmerman, S. and Kirwan, M. L. (2015) ‘NATURAL HAZARDS. Building land with a rising sea’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6248), pp. 588–589.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bernhard, H., Fischbacher, U. and Fehr, E. (2006) ‘Parochial altruism in humans’, Nature, 442(7105), pp. 912–915.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Willig, K. I., Rizzoli, S. O., Westphal, V., Jahn, R. and Hell, S. W. (2006) ‘STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains clustered after synaptic vesicle exocytosis’, Nature, 440(7086), pp. 935–939.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, W., Xiao, H., Wang, Q., Zhao, L. and Zhu, M. (2016) Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Schwartz, R. A., Byrne, J. A. and Colaninno, A. (eds) (2005) A Trading Desk’s View of Market Quality. Boston, MA: Springer US (Zicklin School of Business Financial Markets Conference Series Baruch College).

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, S. X., McLachlan, G. and Pyne, S. (2016) ‘Application of Mixture Models to Large Datasets’, in Pyne, S., Rao, B. L. S. P., and Rao, S. B. (eds) Big Data Analytics: Methods and Applications. New Delhi: Springer India, pp. 57–74.

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 Journal for Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology and Biosafety.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2016) Why Public Health Scholars Should Study Pornography, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-public-health-scholars-should-study-pornography/ (Accessed: 30 October 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 (1977) Manned Undersea Science and Technology Needs Focus and Direction. PSAD-77-130. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pena, H. (2017) Long-Term Effects of Post-Fire Forest Structure on Understory Vegetation in Larch Forests of the Siberian Arctic. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2015) ‘Europe; Azerbaijan: Journalist Critical of Leader Is Sentenced to 7 1/2 Years in Prison’, New York Times, 2 September, p. A11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2001; Temmerman and Kirwan, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Temmerman and Kirwan, 2015)
Three authors: (Bernhard, Fischbacher and Fehr, 2006)
4 or more authors: (Willig et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal for Veterinary Medicine, Biotechnology and Biosafety
ISSN (print)	2411-3174
ISSN (online)	2411-0388
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