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

Seewald, J.S., 2003. Organic-inorganic interactions in petroleum-producing sedimentary basins. Nature 426, 327–333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lukas, D., Clutton-Brock, T.H., 2013. The evolution of social monogamy in mammals. Science 341, 526–530.

A journal article with 3 authors

García-Ruiz, J.M., Melero-García, E., Hyde, S.T., 2009. Morphogenesis of self-assembled nanocrystalline materials of barium carbonate and silica. Science 323, 362–365.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sato, T., Kamiyama, T., Takahashi, T., Kurahashi, K., Yamada, K., 2001. Observation of d(x2-y2)-like superconducting gap in an electron-doped high-temperature superconductor. Science 291, 1517–1519.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pascoe, N., 2011. Reliability Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hof, M., Hutterer, R., Fidler, V. (Eds.), 2005. Fluorescence Spectroscopy in Biology: Advanced Methods and their Applications to Membranes, Proteins, DNA, and Cells, Springer Series on Fluorescence, Methods and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Mobarek, A., Mollah, S., 2016. Determinants of Market Co-Movement in Developed and Emerging Markets, in: Mollah, S. (Ed.), Global Stock Market Integration: Co-Movement, Crises, and Efficiency in Developed and Emerging Markets. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp. 99–113.

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

Davis, J., 2015. Trial Shows Promise For A “Universal” Flu Vaccine [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/experiments-mice-have-shown-promise-universal-flu-vaccine/ (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, 1988. Guaranteed Student Loans: Lenders’ Interest Billings Often Result in Overpayments (No. HRD-88-72). 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

Wager, L., 2009. Racial differences in the relationship between child externalizing and corporal punishment: The role of other discipline strategies (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kelly, T. by J., 2014. Boy of Summer. New York Times MM43.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seewald, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lukas and Clutton-Brock, 2013; Seewald, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Lukas and Clutton-Brock, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sato et al., 2001)

About the journal

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

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