How to format your references using the Research in Veterinary Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Veterinary Science. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Reimer, P.J., 2001. Archaeology. A new twist in the radiocarbon tale. Science 294, 2494–2495.

A journal article with 2 authors

Summers, M.F., Hrabowski, F.A., 3rd, 2006. Diversity. Preparing minority scientists and engineers. Science 311, 1870–1871.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cartwright, H.N., Humphries, J.A., Smith, L.G., 2009. PAN1: a receptor-like protein that promotes polarization of an asymmetric cell division in maize. Science 323, 649–651.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kelly-Welch, A.E., Hanson, E.M., Boothby, M.R., Keegan, A.D., 2003. Interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 signaling connections maps. Science 300, 1527–1528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonald, T., Feuillet, M., 2011. Network Performance Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Varma, A., Oelmüller, R. (Eds.), 2007. Advanced Techniques in Soil Microbiology, Soil Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Cabot, J., Clarisó, R., Riera, D., 2009. Verifying UML/OCL Operation Contracts, in: Leuschel, M., Wehrheim, H. (Eds.), Integrated Formal Methods: 7th International Conference, IFM 2009, Düsseldorf, Germany, February 16-19, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 40–55.

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 Research in Veterinary Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Mangy Marsupials: Wombats Are Catching A Deadly Disease, And We Urgently Need A Plan To Help Them [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, 1992. Tax Systems Modernization: Factors Critical to Success (No. T-IMTEC-92-10). 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

Culumber, J.J., 2017. Physician Practice Survival: The Role of Analytics in Shaping the Future (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Cameras, Action and Even Lights. New York Times D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reimer, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Reimer, 2001; Summers and Hrabowski, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Summers and Hrabowski, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kelly-Welch et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Veterinary Science
Abbreviation	Res. Vet. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0034-5288
Scope	General Veterinary