How to format your references using the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the South African Veterinary Association (JSAVA). 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

Kleppner, D., 2006, ‘Physics. A more precise fine structure constant’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5786), 448–449.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forrest, W.F. & Cavet, G., 2007, ‘Comment on “The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers”’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5844), 1500; author reply 1500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rieping, W., Habeck, M. & Nilges, M., 2005, ‘Inferential structure determination’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5732), 303–306.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bergeron, V., V., Bonn, D., Martin, J.Y. & Vovelle, L., 2000, ‘Controlling droplet deposition with polymer additives’, Nature, 405(6788), 772–775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Devolder, P., Janssen, J. & Manca, R., 2012, Stochastic Methods for Pension Funds, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Haasis, H.-D., Kopfer, H. & Schönberger, J. (eds.), 2006, Operations Research Proceedings 2005: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Bremen, September 7–9, 2005, vol. 2005, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

McCarthy, B., Varakliotis, S., Edwards, C. & Roedig, U., 2010, ‘Deploying Wireless Sensor Networking Technology in a Rescue Team Context’, in P.J. Marron, T. Voigt, P. Corke & L. Mottola (eds.), Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks: 4th International Workshop, REALWSN 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 16-17, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science., pp. 37–48, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 of the South African Veterinary Association.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014, 5 Unsolved Mysteries of Space, IFLScience.

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, 2008, Federal-Aid Highways: Federal Requirements for Highways May Influence Funding Decisions and Create Challenges, but Benefits and Costs Are Not Tracked, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bernal, E., 2013, Ethnographic research of emergent cultural themes from technology-based informal education in a museum – PhD thesis, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA .

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

Slivka, K., 2012, First Half of Year Hottest On Record, New York Times, p. A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kleppner 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kleppner 2006; Forrest & Cavet 2007).

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

Two authors: (Forrest & Cavet 2007)
Three or more authors: (Bergeron et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
Abbreviation	J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc.
ISSN (print)	1019-9128
ISSN (online)	2224-9435
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary