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

BREAKER, R.R. (2008) Complex riboswitches. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319, 1795–1797.

A journal article with 2 authors

MILES, L. and KAPOS, V. (2008) Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: global land-use implications. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320, 1454–1455.

A journal article with 3 authors

ARCHIBALD, J.D., AVERIANOV, A.O. and EKDALE, E.G. (2001) Late Cretaceous relatives of rabbits, rodents, and other extant eutherian mammals. Nature 414, 62–65.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

PRAINSACK, B., REARDON, J., HINDMARSH, R., GOTTWEIS, H., NAUE, U. and LUNSHOF, J.E. (2008) Personal genomes: Misdirected precaution. Nature 456, 34–35.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

BOWER, J.A. (2013) Statistical Methods for Food Science. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

CALVO LOPEZ, B. and PEÑA, E., eds (2012) Patient-Specific Computational Modeling. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

DACEWICZ, A., NOWAK, K. and SZELAG, E. (2016) Temporal Information Processing and Language Skills in Children with Specific Language Impairment. In Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing. Eds A. Esposito, M. Faundez-Zanuy, A.M. Esposito, G. Cordasco, T. Drugman, J. Solé-Casals and F.C. Morabito. Springer International Publishing. pp 45–52.

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.

Blog post

EVANS, K. (2016) Marriages Fail When Couples Get Stuck In These Two Toxic Relationship Dynamics. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/marriages-fail-when-couples-get-stuck-in-these-two-toxic-relationship-dynamics/. 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 (1988) Telecommunications Acquisitions: Information on GSA’s Procurements. IMTEC-88-24. 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

JANPENGPEN, A. (2010) Monitoring and forecasting biosolids odors at prior lime and post lime addition in wastewater treatment plants.

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

PONIEWOZIK, J. (2016) Sci-Fi Western on HBO? Yes, It’s Dark. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Breaker 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Breaker 2008; Miles and Kapos 2008).

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

Two authors: (Miles and Kapos 2008)
Three or more authors: (Prainsack and others 2008)

About the journal

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