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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

DOUGLAS, T. (2003) Materials science. A bright bio-inspired future. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, 1192–1193.

A journal article with 2 authors

TAN, L.W.H. and SUBRAMANIAM, R. (2002) Education. Science and the student entrepreneur. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298, 1556.

A journal article with 3 authors

JALILI, R., RAZAL, J.M. and WALLACE, G.G. (2013) Wet-spinning of PEDOT:PSS/functionalized-SWNTs composite: a facile route toward production of strong and highly conducting multifunctional fibers. Scientific reports 3, 3438.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

HU, R., WEI, X., HU, J. and LUO, X. (2014) Local heating realization by reverse thermal cloak. Scientific reports 4, 3600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

KUEHNI, R.G. (2012) Color. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

LOH, C.S., SHENG, Y. and IFENTHALER, D., eds (2015) Serious Games Analytics: Methodologies for Performance Measurement, Assessment, and Improvement. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

CARR, L.P. and NANNI, A.J. (2009) Delivering Results Context. In Delivering Results: Managing What Matters. Ed A.J. Nanni Jr. Springer US. pp 41–57.

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

CARPINETI, C. (2012) Watch What Happens When An Octopus Gets In The Way Of A Crab Migration. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/enormous-crab-congregation-rips-an-octopus-to-shreds/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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 (2002) Air Traffic Control: Impact of Revised Personnel Relocation Policies Is Uncertain. GAO-03-141. 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

CRUMP, S. (2015) The efficacy of an academic behavior assessment tool for the functional behavior assessment process.

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

CONTE, L. (2011) Scouting Report. New York Times, E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Douglas 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Tan and Subramaniam 2002; Douglas 2003).

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

Two authors: (Tan and Subramaniam 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hu 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