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

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

Bohannon, J., 2009. The Gonzo Scientist. Results from the science dance match-up challenge. Science 324, 1262.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reubi, O., Blundy, J., 2009. A dearth of intermediate melts at subduction zone volcanoes and the petrogenesis of arc andesites. Nature 461, 1269–1273.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, F., Li, J., Wilson, R.J.S., 2014. A tree-ring reconstruction of the South Asian summer monsoon index over the past millennium. Sci. Rep. 4, 6739.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bucciantini, M., Giannoni, E., Chiti, F., Baroni, F., Formigli, L., Zurdo, J., Taddei, N., Ramponi, G., Dobson, C.M., Stefani, M., 2002. Inherent toxicity of aggregates implies a common mechanism for protein misfolding diseases. Nature 416, 507–511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weiss, J., 2016. Handbook of Ion Chromatography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Cannon, K.E., Hudzik, T.J. (Eds.), 2014. Suicide: Phenomenology and Neurobiology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Wafer, A., 2016. The Spirit of Hillbrow: Religion and the Ordering of Social Space in Inner-City Johannesburg, in: Wilhelm-Solomon, M., Núñez, L., Kankonde Bukasa, P., Malcomess, B. (Eds.), Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 117–136.

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 Veterinary Journal.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Purps The Penguin Gets A New 3D-Printed Boot To Help With Her Injury [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, 2001. Aviation Safety: FAA and DOD Response to Similar Safety Concerns (No. GAO-02-77). 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

Johnson, N.J., 2017. Queered (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., 2010. Inquiry Focuses on White House Role in Preserving Union Pensions at Delphi. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bohannon, 2009; Reubi and Blundy, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Reubi and Blundy, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Bucciantini et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Veterinary Journal
Abbreviation	Vet. J.
ISSN (print)	1090-0233
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Veterinary