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

Hengartner, M.O., 2001, 'Apoptosis. DNA destroyers', Nature 412, 27, 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Giuseppone, N. & Lutz, J.-F., 2011, 'Materials chemistry: catalytic accordions', Nature 473, 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Culley, A.I., Lang, A.S. & Suttle, C.A., 2003, 'High diversity of unknown picorna-like viruses in the sea', Nature 424, 1054–1057.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stivala, A., Robins, G., Kashima, Y. & Kirley, M., 2014, 'Ultrametric distribution of culture vectors in an extended Axelrod model of cultural dissemination', Scientific reports 4, 4870.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Best, P., 2005, Implementing Value at Risk, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

vom Brocke, J., Seidel, S. & Recker, J. (eds.), 2012, Green Business Process Management: Towards the Sustainable Enterprise, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Nussbaum, L., Neyron, P. & Richard, O., 2009, 'On Robust Covert Channels Inside DNS', in D. Gritzalis & J. Lopez (eds.) Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference, SEC 2009, Pafos, Cyprus, May 18–20, 2009. Proceedings, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. pp. 51–62, 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, Cracks in Pluto’s Moon Reveal Underground Ocean, IFLScience, viewed 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/cracks-plutos-reveal-underground-ocean/.

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, Title 6 T&A Data (NASA), 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

McCourt, S.B., 2008, 'A phenomenological study of anticipated housing, healthcare, and biopsychosocial needs of aging female baby boomers', Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Wagner, J., 2017, 'Venezuela Tops Italy in Marathon', New York Times, SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hengartner 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Giuseppone & Lutz 2011; Hengartner 2001).

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

Two authors: (Giuseppone & Lutz 2011)
Three or more authors: (Stivala 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