How to format your references using the Australian Veterinary Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Veterinary Journal (AVJ). 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 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

Heuser J. Retrospective. “My little spontaneous blips.” Science 2003;300:1248.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hayden MR, Ling V. Michael Smith (1932-2000). Nature 2000;408:786.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang F, Chen X, Vitousek P. Chinese agriculture: An experiment for the world. Nature 2013;497:33–35.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sui H, Han BG, Lee JK et al. Structural basis of water-specific transport through the AQP1 water channel. Nature 2001;414:872–878.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamarone R. The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

Armknecht F, Lucks S, editors. Research in Cryptology: 4th Western European Workshop, WEWoRC 2011, Weimar, Germany, July 20-22, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Guerraoui R, Letia M. Disjoint-Access Parallelism Does Not Entail Scalability. In: Noubir G, Raynal M, editors. Networked Systems: Second International Conference, NETYS 2014, Marrakech, Morocco, May 15-17, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014:41–56.

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 Australian Veterinary Journal.

Blog post

Hale T. The Sexiest Way To Dance, According To Science. IFLScience IFLScience, 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-sexiest-way-to-dance-according-to-science/. Retrieved 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. Purchases of Degrees from Diploma Mills. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002 Nov.Report No.: GAO-03-269R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ghafoori E. Wavelet transform and neural network [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA], Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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

Vecsey G. Eight Teams That Will Try Their Best. How Novel. New York Times. 2010;D3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Australian Veterinary Journal
Abbreviation	Aust. Vet. J.
ISSN (print)	0005-0423
ISSN (online)	1751-0813
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary