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]

Elgersma Y. Neurodevelopmental disease: A molecular tightrope. Nature 2015;526:50–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cemma M, Brumell JH. Immunology. Bacterial escape artists set afire. Science 2013;339:912–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kirk PDW, Babtie AC, Stumpf MPH. SYSTEMS BIOLOGY. Systems biology (un)certainties. Science 2015;350:386–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Brown S, Heinisch I, Ross E, Shaw K, Buckley CD, Savill J. Apoptosis disables CD31-mediated cell detachment from phagocytes promoting binding and engulfment. Nature 2002;418:200–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Samara T. ERP and Information Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Chiappelli F, editor. Evidence-Based Practice: Toward Optimizing Clinical Outcomes. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Teruel MA, Navarro E, López-Jaquero V, Montero F, González P. CSRML: A Goal-Oriented Approach to Model Requirements for Collaborative Systems. In: Jeusfeld M, Delcambre L, Ling T-W, editors. Conceptual Modeling – ER 2011: 30th International Conference, ER 2011, Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 3, 2011. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 33–46.

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]

Hale T. New Close-Ups of Saturn’s Rings Are Gorgeous And Fascinating. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-closeups-of-saturns-rings-are-gorgeous-and-fascinating/ (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. Maritime Administration’s Federal Ship Financing Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

LaVertu DJ. An Exploratory Approach to In-Trinity® for Fall Prevention. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Glionna JM. A Vietnam-Era Deserter Hopes to Rally a New Antiwar Generation. New York Times 2016:A13.

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

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