How to format your references using the Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science (BJVRAS). 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

Lévy-Leblond JM. Science’s fiction. Nature. 2001;413(6856):573.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feld JJ, Hoofnagle JH. Mechanism of action of interferon and ribavirin in treatment of hepatitis C. Nature. 2005;436(7053):967–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gibbs MJ, Armstrong JS, Gibbs AJ. Recombination in the hemagglutinin gene of the 1918 “Spanish flu.” Science. 2001;293(5536):1842–5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wellen KE, Hatzivassiliou G, Sachdeva UM, Bui TV, Cross JR, Thompson CB. ATP-citrate lyase links cellular metabolism to histone acetylation. Science. 2009;324(5930):1076–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent O. IP Telephony. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Kontis K ed. 28th International Symposium on Shock Waves: Vol 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. LXXXIII, 824 p. 557 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Dimaras H, Gallie BL. Genetics of Retinoblastoma and Genetic Counseling. In: Rodriguez-Galindo C, Wilson MW. Retinoblastoma. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010. p. 41–54. (Pediatric Oncology).

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 Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Control Brain Cells Using Sound Waves. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Natural Gas: Factors Affecting Approval Times for Construction of Natural Gas Pipelines. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Feb. Report No.: RCED-92-100.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jo SM. A study of Korean students’ creativity in science using structural equation modeling. [Tese A study of Korean students’ creativity in science using structural equation modeling]. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona; 2009.

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. Start of Chiefs-Steelers Game Moved to Sunday Night. New York Times. 2017;D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lévy-Leblond, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Feld & Hoofnagle, 2005; Lévy-Leblond, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Feld & Hoofnagle, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Wellen et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science
ISSN (print)	1413-9596
ISSN (online)	1678-4456
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