How to format your references using the Veterinary Record citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Veterinary Record. 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

GISIN, N. (2006) Physics. New additions to the Schrödinger cat family. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312, 63–64.

A journal article with 2 authors

TOMITA, M. and MURAKAMI, M. (2003) High-temperature superconductor bulk magnets that can trap magnetic fields of over 17 tesla at 29 K. Nature 421, 517–520.

A journal article with 3 authors

GINZBERG, M.B., KAFRI, R. and KIRSCHNER, M. (2015) Cell biology. On being the right (cell) size. Science (New York, N.Y.) 348, 1245075.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

DEECHONGKIT, S., NGUYEN, H., POWERS, E.T., DAWSON, P.E., GRUEBELE, M. and KELLY, J.W. (2004) Context-dependent contributions of backbone hydrogen bonding to beta-sheet folding energetics. Nature 430, 101–105.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

ZWECHER, M.J. (2010) Retirement Portfolios Workbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

GRUEN, D.M., SHENDEROVA, O.A. and VUL’, A.Y., eds (2005) Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond St. Petersburg, Russia 7–10 June 2004. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

VAN DEVEN, T., HIBBERT, K. and ELLINOR, H.C. (2009) Teaching and Learning: Defining the Scholarship of Teaching. In Radiology Education: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Eds R.K. Chhem, K.M. Hibbert and T.V. Deven. Springer. pp 39–49.

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.

Blog post

HALE, T. (2016) Time-Lapse Of Bird’s Nest Has An Unexpected Ending. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gopro-timelapse-captures-unexpected-moment-birds-nest/. 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 (2006) No Child Left Behind Act: States Face Challenges Measuring Academic Growth. GAO-06-948T. 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

LAFFIER, J. (2015) A qualitative evaluation of the role of artistic expression in psychological empowerment of bullying victims.

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

GUSTINES, G.G. (2013) Superman at 75: Still Going Strong. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gisin 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Tomita and Murakami 2003; Gisin 2006).

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

Two authors: (Tomita and Murakami 2003)
Three or more authors: (Deechongkit and others 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Record
Abbreviation	Vet. Rec.
ISSN (print)	2042-7670
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary