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 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

Macilwain, C., 2014. Europe needs a research leader who will lead. Nature 512, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Spilianakis, C.G., Flavell, R.A., 2006. Molecular biology. Managing associations between different chromosomes. Science 312, 207–208.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, K., Zhang, Y., Wang, S., 2013. Enhancing thermoelectric properties of organic composites through hierarchical nanostructures. Sci. Rep. 3, 3448.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Teeling, E.C., Scally, M., Kao, D.J., Romagnoli, M.L., Springer, M.S., Stanhope, M.J., 2000. Molecular evidence regarding the origin of echolocation and flight in bats. Nature 403, 188–192.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Campbell, A.K., 2014. Intracellular Calcium. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Wang, W. (Ed.), 2014. Mechatronics and Automatic Control Systems: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Mechatronics and Automatic Control Systems (ICMS2013), Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Dündar, G., Unutulmaz, A., 2011. Routing Analog Circuits, in: Graeb, H.E. (Ed.), Analog Layout Synthesis: A Survey of Topological Approaches. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 149–201.

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

Davis, J., 2017. Science May Have Solved Why Taking Deep Breaths Calms You Down [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/science-may-have-solved-why-taking-deep-breaths-calms-you-down/ (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, 2014. DOD Education Benefits: Action Is Needed to Ensure Evaluations of Postsecondary Schools Are Useful (No. GAO-14-855). 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

Ramirez, C., 2012. Generation-Y leadership: A qualitative phenomenological study of virtual socialization relationships (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

Schwartz, J., 2016. Scientists Search for Global Warming’s Role as Hurricanes Return in Force. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2014; Spilianakis and Flavell, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Spilianakis and Flavell, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Teeling et al., 2000)

About the journal

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