How to format your references using the Veterinary Record Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Veterinary Record Case Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

ROSNER, G. (2000) PARTICLE PHYSICS: Enhanced: How Strange Is the Proton? Science (New York, N.Y.) 290, 2083–2084.

A journal article with 2 authors

THOMPSON, D.W.J. and BARNES, E.A. (2014) Periodic variability in the large-scale Southern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343, 641–645.

A journal article with 3 authors

GARNER, E.C., CAMPBELL, C.S. and MULLINS, R.D. (2004) Dynamic instability in a DNA-segregating prokaryotic actin homolog. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306, 1021–1025.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

LI, L., WANG, D., XUE, M., MI, X., LIANG, Y. and WANG, P. (2014) 3’UTR shortening identifies high-risk cancers with targeted dysregulation of the ceRNA network. Scientific reports 4, 5406.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

ZLOKARNIK, M. (2005) Scale-up. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

POBIL, A.P. del, CHINELLATO, E., MARTINEZ-MARTIN, E., HALLAM, J., CERVERA, E. and MORALES, A., eds (2014) From Animals to Animats 13: 13th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, SAB 2014, Castellón, Spain, July 22-25, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

KOEGEL, L.K., ASHBAUGH, K. and KOEGEL, R.L. (2016) Pivotal Response Treatment. In Early Intervention for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Eds R. Lang, T.B. Hancock and N.N. Singh. Springer International Publishing. pp 85–112.

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 Record Case Reports.

Blog post

O`CALLAGHAN, J. (2017) Could Life Survive In The TRAPPIST-1 System?

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 (1990) Truck Safety: States’ Progress in Testing and Licensing Commercial Drivers. RCED-90-78. 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

MCCARROLL, M.L. (2005) Exercise and Airway Clearing Devices in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

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

CRAIG, S. (2015) Despite Risks, Cuomo Bets on Solar Power to Lift Buffalo. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosner 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Rosner 2000; Thompson and Barnes 2014).

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

Two authors: (Thompson and Barnes 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li and others 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Record Case Reports
Abbreviation	Vet. Rec. Case Rep.
ISSN (online)	2052-6121
Scope	General Veterinary