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

Grayson, M., 2010. Parkinson’s disease. Nature 466, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Becks, L., Agrawal, A.F., 2010. Higher rates of sex evolve in spatially heterogeneous environments. Nature 468, 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello, M.J., May, R.M., Stork, N.E., 2013. Response to comments on “Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct?” Science 341, 237.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hamed, M., Khilji, S., Chen, J., Li, Q., 2013. Stepwise acetyltransferase association and histone acetylation at the Myod1 locus during myogenic differentiation. Sci. Rep. 3, 2390.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berntsen, E.S., Thompson, J., 2015. A Guide to Starting Your Hedge Fund. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lajtha, A., Lim, R. (Eds.), 2006. Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Neuroactive Proteins and Peptides. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H., 2012. Sprijin Tehnologic Pentru Limba Română, in: Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (Eds.), The Romanian Language in the Digital Age, White Paper Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 18–39.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Study Finds Bullying Affects Mental Health More Than Child Abuse [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/price-bullying-measured/ (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, 1990. High Definition Television: The Effects of Standards on U.S. Entertainment Industries (No. IMTEC-90-33). 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

Wolff, A., 2013. PRIDE: A psycho-educational peer support group for LGBTIQ youth: A grant proposal (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

Shpigel, B., 2017. Steelers Flex Muscle, on Ground and Through the Air. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Becks and Agrawal, 2010; Grayson, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Becks and Agrawal, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hamed et al., 2013)

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