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

Lloyd S. Enhanced sensitivity of photodetection via quantum illumination. Science 321, 1463–1465, 2008

A journal article with 2 authors

Tamura A, Yui N. Lysosomal-specific cholesterol reduction by biocleavable polyrotaxanes for ameliorating Niemann-Pick type C disease. Sci. Rep. 4, 4356, 2014

A journal article with 3 authors

Tripathi MK, Sahu KC, Govindarajan R. Why a falling drop does not in general behave like a rising bubble. Sci. Rep. 4, 4771, 2014

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cai W-J, Chen L, Chen B, Gao Z, Lee SH, Chen J, Pierrot D, Sullivan K, Wang Y, Hu X, Huang W-J, Zhang Y, Xu S, Murata A, Grebmeier JM, Jones EP, Zhang H. Decrease in the CO2 uptake capacity in an ice-free Arctic Ocean basin. Science 329, 556–559, 2010

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Obayya S, Hameed MFO, Areed NFF. Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016

An edited book

Golding SD, Glikson M, editors. Earliest Life on Earth: Habitats, Environments and Methods of Detection. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011

A chapter in an edited book

Ekardt F. Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory. In: Hollo EJ, Kulovesi K, Mehling M (eds) . Climate Change and the Law. Pp 63–79. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013

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

Carpineti A. Incredible New Images Of Mars Are So High-Res, You Can See Beagle 2 On The Surface. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-technique-shows-hi-res-mars-space/ (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. NASA Budget: Carryover Balances for Selected Programs. 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

Fletcher B. Tropes of Dis/Ableism as Flexible Stigma: Examining Brenda Connors’ 2008 Report as an Instance of Dis/Ableist Polemical Rhetoric. 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

Crow K. A Decision on a Convicted Killer Looses a Rush of Musical Memories. New York Times. : 146, 2000

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lloyd 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lloyd 2008; Tamura and Yui 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tamura and Yui 2014)
Three or more authors: (Cai 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