How to format your references using the Veterinary Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Veterinary Microbiology. 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

Coppi, P., 2007. Astronomy. Inside a cosmic train wreck. Science 316, 1852–1854.

A journal article with 2 authors

Park, J., Yook, S.-H., 2014. Bayesian inference of natural rankings in incomplete competition networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 6212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Indjeian, V.B., Stern, B.M., Murray, A.W., 2005. The centromeric protein Sgo1 is required to sense lack of tension on mitotic chromosomes. Science 307, 130–133.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hänsel, W., Hommelhoff, P., Hänsch, T.W., Reichel, J., 2001. Bose-Einstein condensation on a microelectronic chip. Nature 413, 498–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, A.E., Geiger, G., Fine, H.A., 2011. Handbook on Material and Energy Balance Calculations in Material Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hayat, M.A. (Ed.), 2013. Pediatric Cancer, Volume 4: Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis, Pediatric Cancer, Diagnosis, Therapy, and Prognosis. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Borgelt, C., Picado-Muiño, D., 2014. Simple Pattern Spectrum Estimation for Fast Pattern Filtering with CoCoNAD, in: Blockeel, H., Leeuwen, M. van, Vinciotti, V. (Eds.), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XIII: 13th International Symposium, IDA 2014, Leuven, Belgium, October 30 – November 1, 2014. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 37–48.

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 Microbiology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Tiny Teeth In Corkscrew Poop Show Ancient Sharks Were Cannibalizing Their Young [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-teeth-in-corkscrew-poop-show-ancient-sharks-were-cannibalizing-their-young/ (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, 1994. D.C. Court Orders (No. GGD-94-75R). 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

Poudel, S.R., 2017. Models and Algorithms to Solve a Reliable and Congested Biomass Supply Chain Network Designing Problem under Uncertainty (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Top General In Chechnya Is Fired. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coppi, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Coppi, 2007; Park and Yook, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Park and Yook, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hänsel et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Microbiology
Abbreviation	Vet. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0378-1135
ISSN (online)	1873-2542
Scope	Microbiology General Medicine General Veterinary