How to format your references using the Veterinary Quarterly citation style

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

Bainbridge WS. 2003. Perceptions of science essay. Privacy and property on the Net: research questions. Science. 302(5651):1686–1687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaughn MW, Martienssen R. 2005. It’s a small RNA world, after all. Science. 309(5740):1525–1526.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kremer M, Brannen C, Glennerster R. 2013. The challenge of education and learning in the developing world. Science. 340(6130):297–300.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Li J, Wang X, Zhao L, Gao X, Zhao Y, Zhou R. 2014. Rotation motion of designed nano-turbine. Sci Rep. 4:5846.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harrison A. 2016. The Life of D. H. Lawrence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Indulska J, Patterson DJ, Rodden T, Ott M, editors. 2008. Pervasive Computing: 6th International Conference, Pervasive 2008 Sydney, Australia, May 19-22, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Putterman AM. 2012. Cheek–Midface Lift. In: Hartstein ME, Wulc AE, Holck DEE, editors. Midfacial Rejuvenation. New York, NY: Springer; p. 49–64.

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 Quarterly.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Weathermen Of Westeros: Does The Climate In Game Of Thrones Make Sense? IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/weathermen-westeros-does-climate-game-thrones-make-sense/

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. 2006. Social Security Numbers: More Could be Done to Protect SSNs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hernandez K. 2015. Life skills education for at-risk youth at Soledad Enrichment Action Charter High School: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Van Gelder SKC by L. 2005. Arts, Briefly; “Vagina Monologues” in Moscow. New York Times.:B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bainbridge 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bainbridge 2003; Vaughn and Martienssen 2005).

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

Two authors: (Vaughn and Martienssen 2005)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Quarterly
Abbreviation	Vet. Q.
ISSN (print)	0165-2176
ISSN (online)	1875-5941
Scope	General Veterinary