How to format your references using the Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research. 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

Hellemans, A., 2000, 'SPACE SCIENCE: Europe Set to Work on Hubble’s Replacement', Science (New York, N.Y.) 289, 2019a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sneden, C. & Cowan, J.J., 2003, 'Genesis of the heaviest elements in the Milky Way Galaxy', Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, 70–75.

A journal article with 3 authors

El-Ali, J., Sorger, P.K. & Jensen, K.F., 2006, 'Cells on chips', Nature 442, 403–411.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xu, H.-X., Wang, G.-M., Tao, Z. & Cui, T.J., 2014, 'High-directivity emissions with flexible beam numbers and beam directions using gradient-refractive-index fractal metamaterial', Scientific reports 4, 5744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieser, K.H., 2007, Nuclear and Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Gutwirth, S., Leenes, R. & De Hert, P. (eds.), 2014, Reloading Data Protection: Multidisciplinary Insights and Contemporary Challenges, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Oliveira, L.B., Fernandes, J.R., Filanovsky, I.M., Verhoeven, C.J.M. & Silva, M.M., 2008, 'Quadrature LC-Oscillator', in J. R. Fernandes et al. (eds.) Analysis and Design of Quadrature Oscillators, pp. 81–98, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014, Hidden Brain Activity Distinguishes Between Vegetative Patients, IFLScience, viewed 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/hidden-brain-activity-distinguishes-between-vegetative-patients/.

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, 2004, Transportation Security R&D: TSA and DHS Are Researching and Developing Technologies, but Need to Improve R&D Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Villa, J., 2017, 'Multicultural Training for Mental Health Professionals Working in the Juvenile Justice System', Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

McMORROW, R. & Forsythe, M., 2017, 'Chinese Tech Tycoon to Leave Troubled Company', New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hellemans 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hellemans 2000; Sneden & Cowan 2003).

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

Two authors: (Sneden & Cowan 2003)
Three or more authors: (Xu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
Abbreviation	Onderstepoort J. Vet. Res.
ISSN (online)	2219-0635
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary