How to format your references using the Preventive Veterinary Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 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	Download the output style file
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

Wen, L., 2006. Localized temporal change of the Earth’s inner core boundary. Science 314, 967–970.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enright, M.C., Spratt, B.G., 2011. Genomics. The genomic view of bacterial diversification. Science 331, 407–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

He, D.Z.Z., Jia, S., Dallos, P., 2004. Mechanoelectrical transduction of adult outer hair cells studied in a gerbil hemicochlea. Nature 429, 766–770.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blancou, P., Vartanian, J.P., Christopherson, C., Chenciner, N., Basilico, C., Kwok, S., Wain-Hobson, S., 2001. Polio vaccine samples not linked to AIDS. Nature 410, 1045–1046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moorhouse, M., Barry, P., 2005. Bioinformatics Biocomputing and Perl. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Guia, M.J. (Ed.), 2015. The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Böhm, A., Jonsson, M., Kunert, K., Vinel, A., 2014. Context-Aware Retransmission Scheme for Increased Reliability in Platooning Applications, in: Sikora, A., Berbineau, M., Vinel, A., Jonsson, M., Pirovano, A., Aguado, M. (Eds.), Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 6th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2014, Offenburg, Germany, May 6-7, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 30–42.

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 Preventive Veterinary Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. 3D Printed Airway Saves Toddler’s Life [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2001. JFMIP: Acquisition/Financial Systems Interface Requirements (Exposure Draft) (No. JFMIP-SR-01-03). 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

Pokhrel, P., 2010. Towards improved identification of spatially-distributed rainfall runoff models (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Greenhouse, L., 2015. The Roberts Court’s Reality Check. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wen, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Enright and Spratt, 2011; Wen, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Enright and Spratt, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Blancou et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Preventive Veterinary Medicine
Abbreviation	Prev. Vet. Med.
ISSN (print)	0167-5877
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Animals