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

SCHAEFER, B.F. (2005) Geochemistry. When do rocks become oil? Science (New York, N.Y.) 308, 1267–1268.

A journal article with 2 authors

BULLOCK, S.L. and ISH-HOROWICZ, D. (2001) Conserved signals and machinery for RNA transport in Drosophila oogenesis and embryogenesis. Nature 414, 611–616.

A journal article with 3 authors

BAI, T., POLLARD, D.D. and GAO, H. (2000) Explanation for fracture spacing in layered materials. Nature 403, 753–756.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

MASTROLORENZO, G., PETRONE, P.P., PAGANO, M., INCORONATO, A., BAXTER, P.J., CANZANELLA, A. and FATTORE, L. (2001) Herculaneum victims of Vesuvius in ad 79. Nature 410, 769–770.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

SEIFERT, R.J. (2015) Profiting from Weekly Options. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

HERNÁNDEZ-SÁNCHEZ, H. and GUTIÉRREZ-LÓPEZ, G.F., eds (2015) Food Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

MARTINS, V.F., KIRNER, T.G. and KIRNER, C. (2015) Subjective Usability Evaluation Criteria of Augmented Reality Applications. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 7th International Conference, VAMR 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings. Eds R. Shumaker and S. Lackey. Springer International Publishing. pp 39–48.

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

ANDREW, E. (2015) 3D Printed Bionic Hand Wins Dyson Award. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printed-bionic-hand-can-be-made-just-2-days/. 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) Highway Safety: Monitoring Practices To Show Compliance With Speed Limits Should Be Reexamined. RCED-88-93BR. 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

MANN, H.M. (2009) Testing for differentially functioning indicators using mixtures of confirmatory factor analysis models.

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

HAIGNEY, S. (2017) Roman Polanski Is Accused of Rape by a Former Actress. New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schaefer 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bullock and Ish-Horowicz 2001; Schaefer 2005).

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

Two authors: (Bullock and Ish-Horowicz 2001)
Three or more authors: (Mastrolorenzo and others 2001)

About the journal

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