How to format your references using the Journal of Veterinary Cardiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Veterinary Cardiology. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Elvis M. Let’s mine asteroids--for science and profit. Nature 2012;485:549.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ebert DH, Greenberg ME. Activity-dependent neuronal signalling and autism spectrum disorder. Nature 2013;493:327–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Day JMD, Pearson DG, Taylor LA. Highly siderophile element constraints on accretion and differentiation of the Earth-Moon system. Science 2007;315:217–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Grieneisen VA, Xu J, Marée AFM, Hogeweg P, Scheres B. Auxin transport is sufficient to generate a maximum and gradient guiding root growth. Nature 2007;449:1008–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lieser KH. Nuclear and Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Modgil S, Oren N, Toni F, editors. Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumentation: First International Workshop, TAFA 2011. Barcelona, Spain, July 16-17, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 7132. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rosei EA, Salvetti M, Muiesan ML. Ultrasound: Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Plaque (2D–3D). In: Agabiti Rosei E, Mancia G, editors. Assessment of Preclinical Organ Damage in Hypertension, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 41–50.

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 Cardiology.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Sea Turtles Sense Seasons Through Skylights In Their Skulls. IFLScience 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Review of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Procurements of Automatic Data Processing Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kingsley SJ. Preschool teachers’ perceptions of factors influencing their referral decisions for young children with severe behavior problems. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2012.

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

[1]

Hartocollis A. And Surrogacy Makes 3. New York Times 2014:E1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Veterinary Cardiology
Abbreviation	J. Vet. Cardiol.
ISSN (print)	1760-2734
Scope	Physiology General Veterinary