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

KENYON, C.J. (2010) The genetics of ageing. Nature 464, 504–512.

A journal article with 2 authors

JIN, H.-J. and KAPLAN, D.L. (2003) Mechanism of silk processing in insects and spiders. Nature 424, 1057–1061.

A journal article with 3 authors

ROYDEN, L.H., BURCHFIEL, B.C. and VAN DER HILST, R.D. (2008) The geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321, 1054–1058.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

BERNHARD, J.M., BUCK, K.R., FARMER, M.A. and BOWSER, S.S. (2000) The Santa Barbara Basin is a symbiosis oasis. Nature 403, 77–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

NEDOMA, J., STEHLÍK, J., HLAVÁČEK, I., DANĚK, J., DOSTÁLOVÁ, T. and PŘEČKOVÁ, P. (2011) Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biomechanics of Human Skeletal Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

NICI, L. and ZUWALLACK, R., eds (2012) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Co-Morbidities and Systemic Consequences. Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

MEIJER, H.J.M., ESSERS, M., STRUIKMANS, H., VENSELAAR, J.L.M. and POORTMANS, P. (2016) Contributions and Risks of Radiation Therapy in Managing Cancer During Pregnancy. In Managing Cancer during Pregnancy. Ed H.A. Azim Jr. Springer International Publishing. pp 41–54.

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

DAVIS, J. (2015) What’s Happening To Dolphins Around The Site Of The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?

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 (1978) Sanitary Conditions in Selected Food Industries. 107042. 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

TATE, K.J. (2014) Utilizing Canines in a Public School Setting: A Case Study.

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

GREENHOUSE, L. (2006) Supreme Court to Revisit Federal Sentencing Issues. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kenyon 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Jin and Kaplan 2003; Kenyon 2010).

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

Two authors: (Jin and Kaplan 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bernhard and others 2000)

About the journal

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