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

Williams R. 2010. Slowing the decline. Nature. 466(7310):S13-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Byrne S, Ingersoll AP. 2003. A sublimation model for martian south polar ice features. Science. 299(5609):1051–1053.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schwartz JH, Tattersall I, Chi Z. 2014. Comment on “A complete skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the evolutionary biology of early Homo.” Science. 344(6182):360.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Northen TR, Yanes O, Northen MT, Marrinucci D, Uritboonthai W, Apon J, Golledge SL, Nordström A, Siuzdak G. 2007. Clathrate nanostructures for mass spectrometry. Nature. 449(7165):1033–1036.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox C. 2012. An Introduction to LTE. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Demirkan H, Spohrer JC, Krishna V, editors. 2011. Service Systems Implementation. 1st ed. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Edwards AC, Walker RL, Maskell P, Watson CA, Rees RM, Stockdale EA, Knox OGG. 2010. Improving Bioavailability of Phosphate Rock for Organic Farming. In: Lichtfouse E, editor. Genetic Engineering, Biofertilisation, Soil Quality and Organic Farming. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; p. 99–117.

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

Hale T. 2015. The Taurid Meteor Shower Will Be Putting On A “Once In A Decade” Show This November - Here’s How To Watch. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dont-miss-taurid-meteor-showers-next-few-weeks/

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. 1999. Federal Research Grants: Compensation Paid to Graduate Students at the University of California. 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

Grayson N. 2014. Development of a preliminary scale of counterproductive experiences in supervision: Attitudes of clinical psychology doctoral students [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Prosek J. 2017. A Botanist in Lapland. New York Times.:TR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Williams 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Byrne and Ingersoll 2003; Williams 2010).

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

Two authors: (Byrne and Ingersoll 2003)
Three or more authors: (Northen et al. 2007)

About the journal

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