How to format your references using the Acta Scientiae Veterinariae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Scientiae Veterinariae. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

1 Cahalan M.D. 2010. Cell biology. How to STIMulate calcium channels. Science (New York, N.Y.). 330(6000): 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

1 Atkinson T. & Leeder M. 2008. Geology. Canyon cutting on a grand time scale. Science (New York, N.Y.). 319(5868): 1343–1344.

A journal article with 3 authors

1 Booth L.N., Tuch B.B. & Johnson A.D. 2010. Intercalation of a new tier of transcription regulation into an ancient circuit. Nature. 468(7326): 959–963.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1 Yang Z., Xu Y., Xu T., Hoy C.W., Handwerker D.A., Chen G., Northoff G., Zuo X.-N. & Bandettini P.A. 2014. Brain network informed subject community detection in early-onset schizophrenia. Scientific Reports. 4: 5549.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1 Hendrick J. 2010. Law and Ethics in Children’s Nursing. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

1 Vázquez E. (Ed). 2013. Progress of Recycling in the Built Environment: Final report of the RILEM Technical Committee 217-PRE. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, XXX, 286 pp.

A chapter in an edited book

1 Yang Z.R. 2006. A Fast Algorithm for Relevance Vector Machine. In: Corchado E., Yin H., Botti V., & Fyfe C. (Eds). Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning – IDEAL 2006: 7th International Conference, Burgos, Spain, September 20-23, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp.33–39.

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 Acta Scientiae Veterinariae.

Blog post

1 Andrew E. 2016. Living With Complexity: Evolution, Ecology, Viruses And Climate Change. IFLScience. Available at: <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/living-complexity-evolution-ecology-viruses-and-climate-change/>. Accessed 10/2018.

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

1 Government Accountability Office. 1998. Food Assistance: Computerized Information Matching Could Reduce Fraud and Abuse in the Food Stamp Program. Washington, DC: 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

1 Emerson J.D. 2001. The Jambalaya That is My Brain, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati.

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

1 Barron J. 2016. A Museum Rights Its Course as Its Flagship Returns. New York Times, C23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3,4].
This sentence cites four references [3,5,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Scientiae Veterinariae
Abbreviation	Acta Sci. Vet.
ISSN (print)	1678-0345
ISSN (online)	1679-9216
Scope	General Veterinary