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

Vedral V. A better than perfect match. Nature. 2006 Jan 26;439(7075):397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jan YN, Jan L. Retrospective: Seymour Benzer (1921-2007). Science. 2008 Jan 4;319(5859):45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catteruccia F, Godfray HCJ, Crisanti A. Impact of genetic manipulation on the fitness of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes. Science. 2003 Feb 21;299(5610):1225–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu Q, Ning L, Zheng S, Tao M, Shi Y, He Y. Adsorption of carbon dioxide by MIL-101(Cr): regeneration conditions and influence of flue gas contaminants. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 10;3:2916.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov BM. Fundamentals of Ionized Gases. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

Goldreich O, Rosenberg AL, Selman AL, editors. Theoretical Computer Science: Essays in Memory of Shimon Even. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. XII, 399 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 3895).

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer TE, Skyttä P, Hermansson T, Dehghannejad M, Tavakoli S. The Skellefte District. In: Weihed P, editor. 3D, 4D and Predictive Modelling of Major Mineral Belts in Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 93–121. (Mineral Resource Reviews).

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

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Single Atom Detected With High-Powered MRI. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/single-atom-detected-high-powered-mri/

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. Information Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 May. Report No.: GAO-16-696T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Serranilla M. Env7p localizes to the vacuole membrane and plays a role in vacuolar protein processing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2016 Sep 16;MM38.

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