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 (OJVR). 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

Kowalchuk, G.A., 2012, ‘Ecology. Bad news for soil carbon sequestration?’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6098), 1049–1050.

A journal article with 2 authors

Svenning, J.-C. & Condit, R., 2008, ‘Ecology. Biodiversity in a warmer world’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5899), 206–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vivier, E., Nunès, J.A. & Vély, F., 2004, ‘Natural killer cell signaling pathways’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1517–1519.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ma, D., Zerangue, N., Lin, Y.F., Collins, A., Yu, M., Jan, Y.N. & Jan, L.Y., 2001, ‘Role of ER export signals in controlling surface potassium channel numbers’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5502), 316–319.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dauphiné, A., 2012, Fractal Geography, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Deshpande, S. (ed.), 2015, Philosophy in Colonial India, vol. 11, Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Rieck, K., Wahl, S., Laskov, P., Domschitz, P. & Müller, K.-R., 2008, ‘A Self-learning System for Detection of Anomalous SIP Messages’, in H. Schulzrinne, R. State & S. Niccolini (eds.), Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications. Services and Security for Next Generation Networks: Second International Conference, IPTComm 2008, Heidelberg, Germany, July 1-2, 2008. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science., pp. 90–106, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Fang, J., 2014, Walking Fish Sheds Light On The Evolution Of Vertebrate Limbs, IFLScience.

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, 1995, Job Corps Program, 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

Ramakrishnan, L., 2009, Multi-level adaptation for performability in dynamic web service workflows – PhD thesis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN .

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

Eligon, J., 2016, Two of the Best Get a Reward: Each Other, New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kowalchuk 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Svenning & Condit 2008; Kowalchuk 2012).

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

Two authors: (Svenning & Condit 2008)
Three or more authors: (Ma et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
Abbreviation	Onderstepoort J. Vet. Res.
ISSN (print)	0030-2465
ISSN (online)	2219-0635
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary