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

Lerner, L. S. (2000) ‘Good and bad science in US schools’, Nature, 407(6802), pp. 287–290.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saunders, L. R. and Verdin, E. (2009) ‘Cell biology. Stress response and aging’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5917), pp. 1021–1022.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seidenberg, M. S., MacDonald, M. C. and Saffran, J. R. (2002) ‘Neuroscience. Does grammar start where statistics stop?’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5593), pp. 553–554.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Neetu, S., Suresh, I., Shankar, R., Shankar, D., Shenoi, S. S. C., Shetye, S. R., Sundar, D. and Nagarajan, B. (2005) ‘Comment on “The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004”’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5753), pp. 1431; author reply 1431.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dooner, D. B. (2012) Kinematic Geometry of Gearing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fratesi, U. and Senn, L. (eds) (2009) Growth and Innovation of Competitive Regions: The Role of Internal and External Connections. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Advances in Spatial Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Cox, A., Sankaranarayanan, S. and Chang, B.-Y. E. (2012) ‘A Bit Too Precise? Bounded Verification of Quantized Digital Filters’, in Flanagan, C. and König, B. (eds) Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 18th International Conference, TACAS 2012, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, March 24 – April 1, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), pp. 33–47.

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. (2013) Photographs of Baby Olinguitos Have Been Released, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photographs-baby-olinguitos-have-been-released/ (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 (1995) Cost Factors in CARE Act Formulas. HEHS-95-256R. 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

Clemons, B. L. (2010) A correlational study of the ventures for excellence interview-rating system and first year teacher evaluations. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood 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

Saslow, L. (2006) ‘Amid Concerns, Counties Move to Limit Taxes’, New York Times, 23 September, p. LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lerner, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lerner, 2000; Saunders and Verdin, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Saunders and Verdin, 2009)
Three authors: (Seidenberg, MacDonald and Saffran, 2002)
4 or more authors: (Neetu et al., 2005)

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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