How to format your references using the Veterinary Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Veterinary Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Johns A (2008) When authorship met authenticity. Nature 451:1058–1059

A journal article with 2 authors

Karl TR, Trenberth KE (2003) Modern global climate change. Science 302:1719–1723

A journal article with 3 authors

Tomonaga M, Uwano Y, Saito T (2014) How dolphins see the world: a comparison with chimpanzees and humans. Sci Rep 4:3717

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Vandewauw I, De Clercq K, Mulier M, et al (2018) Publisher Correction: A TRP channel trio mediates acute noxious heat sensing. Nature 559:E7

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bell S (2005) Lean Enterprise Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Scuderi GR, Tria AJ (2006) Knee Arthroplasty Handbook: Techniques in Total Knee and Revision Arthroplasty. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Petzoldt A, Bulygin S, Buchmann J (2010) CyclicRainbow – A Multivariate Signature Scheme with a Partially Cyclic Public Key. In: Gong G, Gupta KC (eds) Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2010: 11th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Hyderabad, India, December 12-15, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 33–48

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 Research.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) Check Out What Happens When You Add A Glowstick To Magnetized Liquid. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/check-out-what-happens-when-you-add-glowstick-magnetized-liquid/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2015) Federal Vehicle Fleets: Leading Practices for Managing Fleet Operations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Frederiksen MD (2013) Engaging physicians to support corporate compliance programs: A grounded theory study. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Hollander S (2002) National Titles Go to Wealing And Lindquist. New York Times D6

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Research
Abbreviation	Vet. Res.
ISSN (online)	1297-9716
Scope	General Veterinary