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

Leek PJ. Applied physics. Storing quantum information in Schrödinger’s cats. Science. 2013 Nov 1;342(6158):568–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smaglik P, Smith A. Biotech jobs are still around despite the recent bumpy ride. Nature. 2002 Jul 4;418(6893):4–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parker JS, Roe SM, Barford D. Structural insights into mRNA recognition from a PIWI domain-siRNA guide complex. Nature. 2005 Mar 31;434(7033):663–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Osborn KJ, Haddock SHD, Pleijel F, Madin LP, Rouse GW. Deep-sea, swimming worms with luminescent “bombs.” Science. 2009 Aug 21;325(5943):964.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Milne D. The Psychology of Retirement. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

Shimazu A, Bin Nordin R, Dollard M, Oakman J, editors. Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific: From Theory to Practice. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. VII, 369 p. 26 illus., 9 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Karni R, Kaner M. An engineering tool for the conceptual design of service systems. In: Spath D, Fähnrich KP, editors. Advances in Services Innovations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 65–83.

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

Luntz S. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Mysterious Disease Causes Sea Stars To Disintegrate. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mysterious-disease-causes-sea-stars-disintegrate/

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. Strategic Bombers: B-2 Program Status and Current Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Feb. Report No.: NSIAD-90-120.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Djajalaksana YM. A National Survey of Instructional Strategies Used to Teach Information Systems Courses: An Exploratory Investigation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2011.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Mandatory Military Service. New York Times. 2003 Oct 11;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