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

Smaglik P (2004) The philanthropic principle. Nature 431:719

A journal article with 2 authors

Hawker CJ, Wooley KL (2005) The convergence of synthetic organic and polymer chemistries. Science 309:1200–1205

A journal article with 3 authors

Carazo-Salas RE, Antony C, Nurse P (2005) The kinesin Klp2 mediates polarization of interphase microtubules in fission yeast. Science 309:297–300

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huber C, Eisenreich W, Hecht S, Wächtershäuser G (2003) A possible primordial peptide cycle. Science 301:938–940

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chan EP (2013) Algorithmic Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cocchiarella L (2015) The Visual Language of Technique: Volume 2 - Heritage and Expectations in Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Mayerhofer T, Langer P, Wimmer M, Kappel G (2013) xMOF: Executable DSMLs Based on fUML. In: Erwig M, Paige RF, Wyk EV (eds) Software Language Engineering: 6th International Conference, SLE 2013, Indianapolis, IN, USA, October 26-28, 2013. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 56–75

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

O`Callaghan J (2015) NASA Turns Black Hole Telescope Onto the Sun To Capture X-rays From Microflares. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-turns-black-hole-telescope-sun-capture-x-rays-microflares/. 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 (1980) Oversight of Federally Sponsored Research and Development. 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

Kraynik MJ (2009) Perceptions of U.S. Navy managers toward telecommuting as a management approach: A phenomenological 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

Shpigel B (2017) How Johnson Might Balance Ambassadorship and the Jets. New York Times D2

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

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