How to format your references using the Veterinary Clinical Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Veterinary Clinical Pathology (VCP). 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

Hilton D. Practical policies can combat gender inequality. Nature. 2015;523:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roy S, Asenov A. Applied physics. Where do the dopants go? Science. 2005;309:388–390.

A journal article with 3 authors

Munday JN, Capasso F, Parsegian VA. Measured long-range repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz forces. Nature. 2009;457:170–173.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Martin S, Nishimune A, Mellor JR, Henley JM. SUMOylation regulates kainate-receptor-mediated synaptic transmission. Nature. 2007;447:321–325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raghavan V. Combustion Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Halaburda H. Beyond Bitcoin: The Economics of Digital Currencies. (Sarvary M, ed.). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Etienne J-F, Fechter S, Juppeaux E. Using Simulink Design Verifier for Proving Behavioral Properties on a Complex Safety Critical System in the Ground Transportation Domain. In: Aiguier M, Bretaudeau F, Krob D, eds. Complex Systems Design & Management: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Complex System Design & Management CSDM 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010:61–72.

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 Veterinary Clinical Pathology.

Blog post

Davis J. Paralyzed Man Able To Move His Arm With His Thoughts In World-First Procedure. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/paralyzed-man-able-to-move-his-arm-with-his-thoughts-in-worldfirst-procedure/. Published March 29, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. ADP Systems: SSA Efforts in Implementing Its Field Office Modernization. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Venter WM. People and Pride: A Qualitative Study of Place Attachment and Professional Placemakers. 2016.

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

Williams J. The Best Laid Schemes of Mules and Men. New York Times. January 1, 2017:C4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Veterinary Clinical Pathology
ISSN (print)	0275-6382
ISSN (online)	1939-165X
Scope