How to format your references using the Veterinary Research Communications citation style

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

Kirby SH (2000) Taking the temperature of slabs. Nature 403:31, 33–4

A journal article with 2 authors

Shchukin D, Möhwald H (2013) Materials science. A coat of many functions. Science 341:1458–1459

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-David O, Cohen G, Fineberg J (2010) The dynamics of the onset of frictional slip. Science 330:211–214

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Storici F, Bebenek K, Kunkel TA, et al (2007) RNA-templated DNA repair. Nature 447:338–341

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rogers DW (2010) Concise Physical Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gris M, Yang G (eds) (2012) Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: Second International ICST Conference, MobiCASE 2010, Santa Clara, CA, USA, October 25-28, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Capasso F (2011) Controllo di qualità delle droghe vegetali. In: Capasso F (ed) Farmacognosia: Botanica, chimica e farmacologia delle piante medicinali. Springer, Milano, pp 39–45

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 Communications.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) ExxonMobil Shareholders Demand Action On Climate Change. In: IFLScience. 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 (1982) Evaluation of DOD Comments Re: DOD Instruction 5000.5X, Standard Instruction Set Architectures for Embedded Computers. 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

Beverley D (2014) Golf as a tool for executive leadership development. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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) Leading by 21 Points, Lions Cannot Hold On. New York Times 84

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kirby 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kirby 2000; Shchukin and Möhwald 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shchukin and Möhwald 2013)
Three or more authors: (Storici et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Research Communications
Abbreviation	Vet. Res. Commun.
ISSN (print)	0165-7380
ISSN (online)	1573-7446
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary