How to format your references using the Veterinary Pathology citation style

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

Dodt H-U. Microscopy. The superresolved brain. Science. 2015;347(6221):474–475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Birch JM, Dickinson MH. Spanwise flow and the attachment of the leading-edge vortex on insect wings. Nature. 2001;412(6848):729–733.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karl M, Nowak B, Gasenzer T. Tuning universality far from equilibrium. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2394.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Marlar RA, Leonard BL, Billman BR, Lambert PM, Marlar JE. Biochemical evidence of cannibalism at a prehistoric Puebloan site in southwestern Colorado. Nature. 2000;407(6800):74–78.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zarbock G, Lynch S, Ammann A, Ringer S. Mindfulness for Therapists. John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2014.

An edited book

Benysek G, Pasko M, editors. Power Theories for Improved Power Quality. Springer 2012. (Power Systems; vol. 1).

A chapter in an edited book

Altizer TJJ. To Lissa McCullough (June 13, 1997). In: Grimshaw M, ed. This Silence Must Now Speak: Letters of Thomas J. J. Altizer, 1995–2015. Palgrave Macmillan US 2016:19–23.

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 Pathology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Chaotic Orbit Of Halley’s Comet Explained. IFLScience. IFLScience 2016:

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. Useful Techniques for Examining Automated Data Processing Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office 1969 Jan. Report No.: 091168.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tabares M. Comprehensive skills program for emancipated foster youth: A grant thesis project. California State University, Long Beach 2015:

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

Burghardt LF. New Meters Get a Mixed Review. New York Times. 2006:14LI11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^3,4.
This sentence cites four references ^3,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Pathology
Abbreviation	Vet. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0300-9858
ISSN (online)	1544-2217
Scope	General Veterinary