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

Smith, B.D., 2007. Behavior. The ultimate ecosystem engineers. Science 315, 1797–1798.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams, R.J., Martinez, N.D., 2000. Simple rules yield complex food webs. Nature 404, 180–183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hung, C.-L., Gurarie, V., Chin, C., 2013. From cosmology to cold atoms: observation of Sakharov oscillations in a quenched atomic superfluid. Science 341, 1213–1215.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, K.-C., Wu, W.-W., Liao, C.-N., Chen, L.-J., Tu, K.N., 2008. Observation of atomic diffusion at twin-modified grain boundaries in copper. Science 321, 1066–1069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulinkovich, O.G., 2015. Cyclopropanes in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Melin, P., Kacprzyk, J., Pedrycz, W. (Eds.), 2009. Bio-inspired Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Michel-Schertges, D., 2015. Free Choice of Education? Capabilities, Possibility Spaces, and Incapacitations of Education, Labor, and the Way of Living One Values, in: Otto, H.-U., Atzmüller, R., Berthet, T., Bifulco, L., Bonvin, J.-M., Chiappero-Martinetti, E., Egdell, V., Halleröd, B., Kjeldsen, C.C., Kwiek, M., Schröer, R., Vero, J., Zieleńska, M. (Eds.), Facing Trajectories from School to Work: Towards a Capability-Friendly Youth Policy in Europe, Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 73–86.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. New Telescope Will Help Look For Gamma Rays [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, 1981. Better Management Needed in Automating the Federal Judiciary (No. GGD-81-19). 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

Chavez, G., 2017. Creating Integrated, Inquiry Science Lessons Based on Early Childhood Science Activities (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

Walsh, M.W., 2012. Debt Ceiling Rises Again As Threat For the U.S. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Smith, 2007; Williams and Martinez, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Martinez, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2008)

About the journal

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