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]

Wilczek F. An explorer and surveyor. Nature 2005;437:1095.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Halloran ME, Longini IM Jr. Emerging, evolving, and established infectious diseases and interventions. Science 2014;345:1292–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Moldoveanu T, Gehring K, Green DR. Concerted multi-pronged attack by calpastatin to occlude the catalytic cleft of heterodimeric calpains. Nature 2008;456:404–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shi M, Lin X-D, Chen X, Tian J-H, Chen L-J, Li K, et al. The evolutionary history of vertebrate RNA viruses. Nature 2018;556:197–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dexter AL. Monitoring and Control of Information-Poor Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Fichtinger G, Martel A, Peters T, editors. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2011: 14th International Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 18-22, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. vol. 6892. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Abbott R. If a Tree Casts a Shadow Is It Telling the Time? In: Calude CS, Dinneen MJ, Păun G, Rozenberg G, Stepney S, editors. Unconventional Computation: 5th International Conference, UC 2006, York, UK, September 4-8, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 41–56.

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]

Andrew E. What Does Spider-Man Eat For Breakfast? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-does-spider-man-eat-breakfast/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Federal Retirement Processing: OPM Is Pursuing Incremental Information Technology Improvements after Canceling a Modernization Plagued by Management Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

O’Connell AM. Customer retention and leadership in the nonprofit healthcare organization. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2008.

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]

Murphy MJO. Watching Youth Fly by, in Fiction and Fact. New York Times 2015:AR12.

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