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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Steinberger B. Geophysics. Reconstructing Earth history in three dimensions. Science. 2008;322:866–868.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koechlin E, Hyafil A. Anterior prefrontal function and the limits of human decision-making. Science. 2007;318:594–598.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song J, Gao X, Galán JE. Structure and function of the Salmonella Typhi chimaeric A(2)B(5) typhoid toxin. Nature. 2013;499:350–354.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Song J, Wu L, Chen Z, Kohanski RA, Pick L. Axons guided by insulin receptor in Drosophila visual system. Science. 2003;300:502–505.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghez R. A Primer of Diffusion Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Sickles RC, Horrace WC, eds. Festschrift in Honor of Peter Schmidt: Econometric Methods and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Lavelli A. An Ensemble Model for the EVALITA 2011 Dependency Parsing Task. In: Magnini B, Cutugno F, Falcone M, Pianta E, eds. Evaluation of Natural Language and Speech Tools for Italian: International Workshop, EVALITA 2011, Rome, January 24-25, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013:30–36.

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

Andrew E. Landmark Trial Finds Injection Every Other Month Treats HIV Patients. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/landmark-trial-shows-injection-every-other-month-treats-hiv-patients/. Published November 5, 2015. 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. Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Progress Made in Enrolling Workers and Activating Credentials but Evaluation Plan Needed to Help Inform the Implementation of Card Readers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Andrews M. Health literacy competencies for health professionals: A Delphi study. 2014.

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

Jacoby S. The Golden Rule. New York Times. December 21, 2014:BR7.

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