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

Begelman, M. C. (2003) ‘Evidence for black holes’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), pp. 1898–1903.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ofek, G. and Diskin, R. (2014) ‘HIV. Expanding the breadth of an HIV-1 vaccine’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6215), pp. 1290–1291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fuerstman, M. J., Garstecki, P. and Whitesides, G. M. (2007) ‘Coding/decoding and reversibility of droplet trains in microfluidic networks’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 315(5813), pp. 828–832.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Johánek, V., Laurin, M., Grant, A. W., Kasemo, B., Henry, C. R. and Libuda, J. (2004) ‘Fluctuations and bistabilities on catalyst nanoparticles’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5677), pp. 1639–1644.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lam, J. (2014) Enterprise Risk Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Galin, L. A. (2008) Contact Problems: The legacy of L.A. Galin. Edited by G. M. L. Gladwell. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications).

A chapter in an edited book

Brand, K.-W. (2011) ‘Sociological Perspectives on Sustainability Communication’, in Godemann, J. and Michelsen, G. (eds) Sustainability Communication: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Theoretical Foundation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 55–68.

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

Fang, J. (2016) Tiny Songbird Flies 60 Hours Nonstop Across The Sahara, IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-songbird-flies-60-hours-nonstop-across-sahara/ (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 (1975) Planning for America’s Bicentennial Celebration--A Progress Report. RED-75-373. 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

Dotson, K. T. (2009) Smoke points of microgravity and normal gravity coflow diffusion flames. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Koblin, J. and Barnes, B. (2017) ‘Hulu’s Chief Since 2013 Quits to Lead Sony TV Unit’, New York Times, 24 October, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Begelman, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Begelman, 2003; Ofek and Diskin, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ofek and Diskin, 2014)
Three authors: (Fuerstman, Garstecki and Whitesides, 2007)
4 or more authors: (Johánek et al., 2004)

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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