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

Heintz, N., 2003. Biomedicine. Ataxin-1 regulators in the spotlight. Science 301, 59–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parish, M.M., Littlewood, P.B., 2003. Non-saturating magnetoresistance in heavily disordered semiconductors. Nature 426, 162–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bomfleur, B., McLoughlin, S., Vajda, V., 2014. Fossilized nuclei and chromosomes reveal 180 million years of genomic stasis in royal ferns. Science 343, 1376–1377.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

King, A.D., Carrasquilla, J., Raymond, J., Ozfidan, I., Andriyash, E., Berkley, A., Reis, M., Lanting, T., Harris, R., Altomare, F., Boothby, K., Bunyk, P.I., Enderud, C., Fréchette, A., Hoskinson, E., Ladizinsky, N., Oh, T., Poulin-Lamarre, G., Rich, C., Sato, Y., Smirnov, A.Y., Swenson, L.J., Volkmann, M.H., Whittaker, J., Yao, J., Ladizinsky, E., Johnson, M.W., Hilton, J., Amin, M.H., 2018. Observation of topological phenomena in a programmable lattice of 1,800 qubits. Nature 560, 456–460.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liautaud, M., 2016. Breaking Through. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hardt, S., Schönfeld, F. (Eds.), 2007. Microfluidic Technologies for Miniaturized Analysis Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

de Meatza, I., Miguel, O., Cendoya, I., Kim, G.-T., Löffler, N., Laszczynski, N., Passerini, S., Schweizer, P.M., Castiglione, F., Mele, A., Appetecchi, G.B., Moreno, M., Brandon, M., Kennedy, T., Mullane, E., Ryan, K.M., Cantero, I., Olive, M., 2015. GREENLION Project: Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Low Cost Greener Li-Ion Batteries, in: Briec, E., Müller, B. (Eds.), Electric Vehicle Batteries: Moving from Research towards Innovation: Reports of the PPP European Green Vehicles Initiative, Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–60.

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., 2014. Mental Illness Associated With Shorter Lifespan More Than Heavy Smoking [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mental-illness-associated-shorter-lifespan-more-heavy-smoking/ (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, 2007. District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Additional Policies and Procedures Would Improve Internal Controls and Program Operations (No. GAO-08-9). 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

Cao, Q., 2013. East Asian backpacker tourists’ motivations for participating in backpacking (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

Oestreich, J.R., 2016. For the Record, a Conductor Talks With an Author. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heintz, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Heintz, 2003; Parish and Littlewood, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Parish and Littlewood, 2003)
Three or more authors: (King et al., 2018)

About the journal

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