How to format your references using the The Canadian Veterinary Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Canadian Veterinary Journal. 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

Donley EA. Physics. A view on energy transfer between cold atoms. Science. 2013 Nov 22;342(6161):942–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seddon N, Bearpark T. Observation of the inverse Doppler effect. Science. 2003 Nov 28;302(5650):1537–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Auerbach BD, Osterweil EK, Bear MF. Mutations causing syndromic autism define an axis of synaptic pathophysiology. Nature. 2011 Nov 23;480(7375):63–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhao Z, Chen YA, Zhang AN, Yang T, Briegel HJ, Pan JW. Experimental demonstration of five-photon entanglement and open-destination teleportation. Nature. 2004 Jul 1;430(6995):54–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schober H. Transparent Shells. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2015.

An edited book

Krüger R. Brand Growth Barriers: Identify, Understand, and Overcome Them. Stumpf A, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. XIV, 137 p. (Management for Professionals).

A chapter in an edited book

Alberti SJMM. A Pathological Pot. In: Craciun A, Schaffer S, editors. The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 43–5.

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 The Canadian Veterinary Journal.

Blog post

Davis J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2011 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Hawaiian Crow Found To Use Sticks As Tools. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hawaiian-crow-found-to-use-sticks-as-tools/

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. Administration of Payroll Matters for Civilian Employees, Marine Corps Development and Education Command. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970 Dec. Report No.: 092125.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Blanchard EJ. Legato trombone: A survey of pedagogical resources [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2010.

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

Bilefsky D. Romanian President Survives Ouster Bid. New York Times. 2012 Jul 30;A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	The Canadian Veterinary Journal
ISSN (print)	0008-5286
Scope