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

PLOEHN, H.J. (2015) Materials science: Composite for energy storage takes the heat. Nature 523, 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

SHOWALTER, M.R. and LISSAUER, J.J. (2006) The second ring-moon system of Uranus: discovery and dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, 973–977.

A journal article with 3 authors

PLATT, T., FUENTES-YACO, C. and FRANK, K.T. (2003) Marine ecology: Spring algal bloom and larval fish survival. Nature 423, 398–399.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

MAULE, C.F., PURUCKER, M.E., OLSEN, N. and MOSEGAARD, K. (2005) Heat flux anomalies in Antarctica revealed by satellite magnetic data. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309, 464–467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

PARET, D. (2012) Flexray and its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

SIDIN, S. and MANRAI, A.K., eds (2015) Proceedings of the 1997 World Marketing Congress. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

HUTSON, J.M. (2012) Abnormal Embryology in DSD. In Disorders of Sex Development: An Integrated Approach to Management. Eds J.M. Hutson, G.L. Warne and S.R. Grover. Springer. pp 41–52.

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. (2016) A Global Dust Storm Might Cover Mars In A Matter Of 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 (2015) Broadband: Intended Outcomes and Effectiveness of Efforts to Address Adoption Barriers Are Unclear. GAO-15-473. 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

SYLVAIN, O. (2010) Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927.

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

WAGNER, J. (2017) First-Base Prospect Finally Lives the Dream During a Mets Victory. New York Times, D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ploehn 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Showalter and Lissauer 2006; Ploehn 2015).

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

Two authors: (Showalter and Lissauer 2006)
Three or more authors: (Maule and others 2005)

About the journal

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