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

Mitchell, K., 2010. Journal club. A neurodevelopmental geneticist explores how one mutation can lead to multiple diseases. Nature 464, 1107.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shang, Y., Brown, M., 2002. Molecular determinants for the tissue specificity of SERMs. Science 295, 2465–2468.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pavlov, P., Svendsen, J.I., Indrelid, S., 2001. Human presence in the European Arctic nearly 40,000 years ago. Nature 413, 64–67.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vashist, S.K., Marion Schneider, E., Lam, E., Hrapovic, S., Luong, J.H.T., 2014. One-step antibody immobilization-based rapid and highly-sensitive sandwich ELISA procedure for potential in vitro diagnostics. Sci. Rep. 4, 4407.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mihajlovic-Madzarevic, V., 2010. Clinical Trials Audit Preparation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Reidy, J., Hacking, N., McLucas, B. (Eds.), 2014. Radiological Interventions in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kushalnagar, R., Ramachandran, V., Oh, T., 2014. Tactile Captions: Augmenting Visual Captions, in: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., Zagler, W. (Eds.), Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 25–32.

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., 2015. The Truth About Politics And Cartography: Mapping Claims To The Arctic Seabed [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/truth-about-politics-and-cartography-mapping-claims-arctic-seabed/ (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, 1995. Multiple Teacher Training Programs: Information on Budgets, Services, and Target Groups (No. HEHS-95-71FS). 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

Rodriguez, S.G., 2010. Devotion to land: The Virgin Mary and the Mudejar in the post-conquest program of Alfonso X of Castile, 1252–1284 (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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE TRANSITION: The President-Elect; AFTER 13 MONTHS, CLINTON RELAXES. New York Times 128.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mitchell, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mitchell, 2010; Shang and Brown, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Shang and Brown, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Vashist et al., 2014)

About the journal

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