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

Speakman JR. FTO effect on energy demand versus food intake. Nature 464, E1; discussion E2, 2010

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruud J, Brüning JC. Metabolism: Light on leptin link to lipolysis. Nature 527, 43–44, 2015

A journal article with 3 authors

Sherwood SC, Bony S, Dufresne J-L. Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing. Nature 505, 37–42, 2014

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reysenbach A-L, Liu Y, Banta AB, Beveridge TJ, Kirshtein JD, Schouten S, Tivey MK, Von Damm KL, Voytek MA. A ubiquitous thermoacidophilic archaeon from deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Nature 442, 444–447, 2006

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gao J. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2015

An edited book

Gabrys B, Leiviskä K, Strackeljan J, editors. Do Smart Adaptive Systems Exist?: Best Practice for Selection and Combination of Intelligent Methods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005

A chapter in an edited book

Thomson DM, Cherniaev A, Telichev I. Conceptual Design of an “Umbrella” Spacecraft for Orbital Debris Shielding. In: Sgobba T, Rongier I (eds) . Space Safety is No Accident: The 7th IAASS Conference. Pp 41–47. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015

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

Andrew D. A Bizarre Foam Blob Is Taking Over A Street In California — Here’s What’s Causing It. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-bizarre-foam-blob-is-taking-over-a-street-in-california-heres-whats-causing-it/ (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. Aviation Safety: FAA Generally Agrees With but Is Slow in Implementing Safety Recommendations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck AJ. Determining Bed Failure Depth in Unconsolidated Submarine Sediments Using Particles in Cell Numerical Modeling. University of Louisiana. 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

Greenhill KM. Don’t Dumb Down the Army. New York Times. : A23, 2006

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Speakman 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Speakman 2010; Ruud and Brüning 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ruud and Brüning 2015)
Three or more authors: (Reysenbach et al. 2006)

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