How to format your references using the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science citation style

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

[1]

Owens B. Stroke. Nature 2014;510:S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mescher MC, De Moraes CM. Plant biology: Pass the ammunition. Nature 2014;510:221–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wurmser AE, Palmer TD, Gage FH. Neuroscience. Cellular interactions in the stem cell niche. Science 2004;304:1253–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

He L, Xue L, Xu J, McNeil BD, Bai L, Melicoff E, et al. Compound vesicle fusion increases quantal size and potentiates synaptic transmission. Nature 2009;459:93–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dodson B, Hammett PC, Klerx R. Probabilistic Design for Optimization and Robustness for Engineers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Cheng T, editor. Hematopoietic Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. vol. 6. 1st ed. 2015. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nichol R. Colonialism and Western Education in Melanesia and Australia. In: Nichol R, editor. Growing up Indigenous: Developing Effective Pedagogy for Education and Development, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011, p. 83–9.

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 Journal of Equine Veterinary Science.

Blog post

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O`Callaghan J. The White House Has Released A Plan To Deal With An Asteroid Impact. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-white-house-has-released-a-plan-to-deal-with-an-asteroid-impact/ (accessed 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Transportation Security Infrastructure Modernization May Enhance DHS Screening Capabilities, but It Is Too Early to Assess Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Mete RJ. Can STEM initiatives be social justice oriented: An analysis of urban school reform via smaller learning communities. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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]

Hartocollis A. Faculty Questions NYU Langone’s Political Fund-Raising Efforts. New York Times 2014:A15.

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	Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
Abbreviation	J. Equine Vet. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0737-0806
Scope	Equine