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

Mackman N. Triggers, targets and treatments for thrombosis. Nature. 2008;451(7181):914–918.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helbing D, Pournaras E. Society: Build digital democracy. Nature. 2015;527(7576):33–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anderson B, Cole WW, Barrett SCH. Botany: specialized bird perch aids cross-pollination. Nature. 2005;435(7038):41–42.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Thornton JA, Kercher JP, Riedel TP, et al. A large atomic chlorine source inferred from mid-continental reactive nitrogen chemistry. Nature. 2010;464(7286):271–274.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raut R, Swamy MNS. Modern Analog Filter Analysis and Design. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 2010.

An edited book

Šamaj J, Baluška F, Menzel D, editors. Plant Endocytosis. Springer 2006. (Plant Cell Monographs; vol. 1).

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang X, Fan Z, Wang J, Liao H. 3D Augmented Reality Based Orthopaedic Interventions. In: Zheng G, Li S, eds. Computational Radiology for Orthopaedic Interventions. Springer International Publishing 2016:71–90.

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

Andrew E. MAVEN and Mangalyaan Send Back First Snaps Of Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience 2014:

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. NASA Procurement: Approach to Sharing Risk Under Certain Research and Development Contracts Is Starting to Change. U.S. Government Printing Office 1992 Mar. Report No.: T-NSIAD-92-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marquez HH. Social Capital, Academics, and Sense of Belonging among High School Foster Youth. California State University, Long Beach 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

Schwartz J, Schlossberg T. Little Debating a Climate Divide. New York Times. 2016:D5.

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 ^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