How to format your references using the New Zealand Veterinary Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Veterinary Journal. 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

Hipps KW. Molecular electronics. It’s all about contacts. Science 294, 536–537, 2001

A journal article with 2 authors

Eberly JH, Yu T. Physics. The end of an entanglement. Science 316, 555–557, 2007

A journal article with 3 authors

Hägglund C, Grätzel M, Kasemo B. Comment on “efficient photochemical water splitting by a chemically modified n-TiO2” (II). Science 301, 1673; discussion 1673, 2003

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Swain MR, Deroo P, Griffith CA, Tinetti G, Thatte A, Vasisht G, Chen P, Bouwman J, Crossfield IJ, Angerhausen D, Afonso C, Henning T. A ground-based near-infrared emission spectrum of the exoplanet HD 189733b. Nature 463, 637–639, 2010

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang PG, Chan T. The Chinese Yuan. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809, 2011

An edited book

Sandnes FE, Zhang Y, Rong C, Yang LT, Ma J, editors. Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: 5th International Conference, UIC 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 23-25, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008

A chapter in an edited book

Agassi J, Meidan A. The Burden of Proof. In: Meidan A (ed) . Beg to Differ: The Logic of Disputes and Argumentation. Pp 41–44. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016

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 New Zealand Veterinary Journal.

Blog post

Hale T. This 104-Year-Old Cyclist Is Beating The Science Of Aging. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-104yearold-cyclist-is-beating-the-science-of-aging/ (accessed 30 October 2018). IFLScience. 2016

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. Information Technology: Management Improvements Needed on the Department of Homeland Security’s Next Generation Information Sharing System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ivy J. The Psychological Effect of Parental Incarceration on School-Age Children. Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2011

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

Crouse K. His Term, Forever: Amen. New York Times. : B11, 2015

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hipps 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hipps 2001; Eberly and Yu 2007).

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

Two authors: (Eberly and Yu 2007)
Three or more authors: (Swain et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Veterinary Journal
Abbreviation	N. Z. Vet. J.
ISSN (print)	0048-0169
ISSN (online)	1176-0710
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary