How to format your references using the International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine. 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]

Ejeta G. African Green Revolution needn’t be a mirage. Science 2010;327:831–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Martin OY, Hosken DJ. The evolution of reproductive isolation through sexual conflict. Nature 2003;423:979–82.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Morgan MG, Houghton A, Gibbons JH. Science and government. Improving science and technology advice for Congress. Science 2001;293:1999–2000.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dutton Z, Budde M, Slowe C, Hau LV. Observation of quantum shock waves created with ultra- compressed slow light pulses in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Science 2001;293:663–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tasman A, Kay J, Ursano RJ. The Psychiatric Interview. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Jakus G. Concepts, Ontologies, and Knowledge Representation. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Streffer C, Gethmann CF, Kamp G, Kröger W, Rehbinder E, Renn O, et al. Conclusions and recommendations. In: Gethmann CF, Kamp G, Kröger W, Rehbinder E, Renn O, Röhlig K-J, editors. Radioactive Waste: Technical and Normative Aspects of its Disposal, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 87–107.

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 International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Why Were There So Many Dinosaur Species? IFLScience 2016.

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. Electronic Government: Challenges Must Be Addressed With Effective Leadership and Management. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kranz TE. Body, Land, and Memory: Counter-Narratives in the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Natasha Trethewey. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

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]

Mashal M. Head of ISIS Branch in Afghanistan Killed in April Raid. New York Times 2017:A6.

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	International Journal of Veterinary Science and Medicine
ISSN (print)	2314-4599
Scope