How to format your references using the Veterinary Record Open citation style

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

EICKEN, H. (2013) Arctic sea ice needs better forecasts. Nature 497, 431–433.

A journal article with 2 authors

ALCORN, J.F. and KOLLS, J.K. (2015) Physiology. Killer fat. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, 26–27.

A journal article with 3 authors

COHEN, I.G., SAVULESCU, J. and ADASHI, E.Y. (2015) Medicine. Transatlantic lessons in regulation of mitochondrial replacement therapy. Science (New York, N.Y.) 348, 178–180.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

BI, Y.-G., FENG, J., LIU, Y.-S., LI, Y.-F., CHEN, Y., ZHANG, X.-L., HAN, X.-C. and SUN, H.-B. (2014) Surface plasmon-polariton mediated red emission from organic light-emitting devices based on metallic electrodes integrated with dual-periodic corrugation. Scientific reports 4, 7108.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

VON EYE, A. and MUN, E.-Y. (2012) Log-Linear Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

LIAPIS, C.D., BALZER, K., BENEDETTI-VALENTINI, F. and FERNANDES E FERNANDES, J., eds (2007) Vascular Surgery. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

ABRAHAM, I. and CHECHIK, S. (2014) Distance Labels with Optimal Local Stretch. In Automata, Languages, and Programming: 41st International Colloquium, ICALP 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 8-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part I. Eds J. Esparza, P. Fraigniaud, T. Husfeldt and E. Koutsoupias. Springer. pp 52–63.

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 Open.

Blog post

HAMILTON, K. (2016) Tens Of Thousands Of Dead Fish Just Washed Up On A Cornish Beach – Here’s Why. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/tens-of-thousands-of-dead-fish-just-washed-up-on-a-cornish-beach-heres-why/. 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 (1983) Early Decisions and Delays on the Zilwaukee, Michigan, Bridge Project. RCED-83-165. 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

SELBY, C. (2015) With|out.

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) Justices Overturn Ruling In Case on Buttons in Court. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eicken 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Eicken 2013; Alcorn and Kolls 2015).

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

Two authors: (Alcorn and Kolls 2015)
Three or more authors: (Bi and others 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Record Open
Abbreviation	Vet. Rec. Open
ISSN (online)	2052-6113
Scope