How to format your references using the Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research. 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

Schultz, J.C., 2002. Biochemical ecology: how plants fight dirty. Nature 416, 267.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enquist, J.A., Jr, Stoltz, B.M., 2008. The total synthesis of (-)-cyanthiwigin F by means of double catalytic enantioselective alkylation. Nature 453, 1228–1231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Caricchi, L., Simpson, G., Schaltegger, U., 2014. Zircons reveal magma fluxes in the Earth’s crust. Nature 511, 457–461.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Singh, V., Rai, R.K., Arora, A., Sinha, N., Thakur, A.K., 2014. Therapeutic implication of L-phenylalanine aggregation mechanism and its modulation by D-phenylalanine in phenylketonuria. Sci. Rep. 4, 3875.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clark, G., 2014. The Making of a World City. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Wu, S., Fan, Y., Tian, Y. (Eds.), 2013. Atlas of Single-Incision Laparoscopic Operations in General Surgery. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Slack, K., 2010. The Role of Mining in the Economies of Developing Countries: Time for a New Approach, in: Richards, J. (Ed.), Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 75–90.

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 Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. What Are The Chances That Climate Change Is “Natural”? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. Space Shuttle: Human Capital and Safety Upgrade Challenges Require Continued Attention (No. NSIAD/GGD-00-186). 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

Bravo, M., 2015. The development of a viable business plan: Analytics of 30 day readmission rates for hospitals and ancillary services (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

Kelly, D., 2001. The A List. New York Times 713.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schultz, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Enquist and Stoltz, 2008; Schultz, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Enquist and Stoltz, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Singh et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research
Abbreviation	J. Vet. Behav.
ISSN (print)	1558-7878
Scope	General Veterinary