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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Irish Veterinary Journal. 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. Snieckus V. Richard Heck (1931-2015). Nature. 2015;527:306.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Green DR, Kroemer G. The pathophysiology of mitochondrial cell death. Science. 2004;305:626–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Saito C, Shinzawa K, Tsujimoto Y. Synchronized necrotic death of attached hepatocytes mediated via gap junctions. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5169.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rudebeck PH, Buckley MJ, Walton ME, Rushworth MFS. A role for the macaque anterior cingulate gyrus in social valuation. Science. 2006;313:1310–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Halpin DW, Senior BA. Financial Management and Accounting Fundamentals for Construction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Lieberman H, Paternò F, Wulf V, editors. End User Development. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Alvarez JA, Tangpricha V. Vitamin D and Bone Health. In: Yen EH, Leonard AR, editors. Nutrition in Cystic Fibrosis: A Guide for Clinicians. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 49–65.

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 Irish Veterinary Journal.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Millions of Dog Mummies Discovered in Catacombs of Anubis. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Research and Development Programs With Regard to Short-Term Weather Phenomena. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Mar. Report No.: B-100063.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Crockett W. Student Transitions Into the Full-Time Virtual High School Setting [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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. Greenhouse L. Breathing While Undocumented. New York Times. 2010 Apr 27;A23.

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	Irish Veterinary Journal
Abbreviation	Ir. Vet. J.
ISSN (online)	2046-0481
Scope	General Veterinary