How to format your references using the Vancouver - Serbian Archives of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vancouver - Serbian Archives of Medicine. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Joyce GF. Evolution. Toward an alternative biology. Science. 2012 Apr 20;336(6079):307–8. PMID: 22517850

A journal article with 2 authors

Oliveira JG, Barabási A-L. Human dynamics: Darwin and Einstein correspondence patterns. Nature. 2005 Oct 27;437(7063):1251. PMID: 16251946

A journal article with 3 authors

Zachos JC, Dickens GR, Zeebe RE. An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics. Nature. 2008 Jan 17;451(7176):279–83. PMID: 18202643

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Metzger E, Wissmann M, Yin N, Müller JM, Schneider R, Peters AHFM, et al. LSD1 demethylates repressive histone marks to promote androgen-receptor-dependent transcription. Nature. 2005 Sep 15;437(7057):436–9. PMID: 16079795

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer-Moore D, Moore M. Destructive Myths in Family Therapy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

Jürgensen H, Karhumäki J, Okhotin A, editors. Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems: 16th International Workshop, DCFS 2014, Turku, Finland, August 5-8, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. XII, 366 p. 59 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 8614).

A chapter in an edited book

D’Onofrio M, Rampazzo R, Zaggia S, Longair MS, Ferrarese L, Marziani P, et al. The Anatomy of Galaxies. In: D’Onofrio M, Rampazzo R, Zaggia S, editors. From the Realm of the Nebulae to Populations of Galaxies: Dialogues on a Century of Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 243–379. (Astrophysics and Space Science Library).

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 Vancouver - Serbian Archives of Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Music Of The Genome Hits A Discord With Autism [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/music-genome-hits-discord-autism/ (accessed 2018 Oct 30)

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: Responses to Subcommittee Post-Hearing Questions Regarding the FBI’s Management Practices and Acquisition of a New Investigative Case Management System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Dec. Report No.: GAO-06-302R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Duggimpudi MB. Object Ranking Algorithms for Improved Decision Making [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

Dorman JL. Hot Steaks With a Cool Vibe. New York Times. 2016 Nov 11;TR11.

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	Vancouver - Serbian Archives of Medicine
ISSN (print)	0370-8179
ISSN (online)	2406-0895
Scope