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

Mann, C. C., 2007, ‘Archaeology. Mystery towers in Peru are an ancient solar calendar’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 315(5816), 1206–1207.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ouellette, A. J. & Selsted, M. E., 2012, ‘Immunology. HD6 defensin nanonets’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6093), 420–421.

A journal article with 3 authors

Caro, E., Castellano, M. M. & Gutierrez, C., 2007, ‘A chromatin link that couples cell division to root epidermis patterning in Arabidopsis’, Nature 447(7141), 213–217.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cho, S., Kim, K.-D., Heo, J., Lee, J. Y., Cha, G., Seo, B. Y. et al., 2014, ‘Role of additional PCBM layer between ZnO and photoactive layers in inverted bulk-heterojunction solar cells’, Scientific Reports 4, 4306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khan, M. M. & Islam, M. R., 2016, Zero Waste Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jain, R. & Lee, L. (eds.), 2012, Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites for Infrastructure Applications: Focusing on Innovation, Technology Implementation and Sustainability, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Lam, S.-Y., Tipoe, G. L., Liong, E. C. & Fung, M., 2006, ‘Hypoxia-Inducible Factor (HIF)-1α and Endothelin-1 Expression in the Rat Carotid Body during Intermittent Hypoxia’, in Y. Hayashida, C. Gonzalez, & H. Kondo (eds.), THE ARTERIAL CHEMORECEPTORS, pp. 21–27, Springer US, Boston, MA.

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

Davis, J., 2016, June 10, ‘How One Type Of Honey Bee Manages To Go It Alone Without Males’. Viewed 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-one-type-of-honey-bee-manages-to-go-it-alone-without-males/

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, 1976, Assistance Provided for the Construction of Higher Education Academic Facilities (No. 089087), 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

Flynn, M. J., 2013, Lifeguard employability skills (Doctoral dissertation), 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

Feeney, K., 2009, July 5, ‘An Homage to France’, New York Times, p. NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mann 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Mann 2007; Ouellette & Selsted 2012).

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

Two authors: (Ouellette & Selsted 2012)
Three authors: (Caro, Castellano, & Gutierrez 2007)
7 or more authors: (Cho, Kim, Heo, Lee, Cha, Seo, et al. 2014)

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