How to format your references using the Journal of the South African Veterinary Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the South African Veterinary Association (JSAVA). 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

Thompson, J.N., 2006, ‘Ecology. Mutualistic webs of species’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5772), 372–373.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weaver, M. & Krasnow, M.A., 2008, ‘Dual origin of tissue-specific progenitor cells in Drosophila tracheal remodeling’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5895), 1496–1499.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kersten, S., Desvergne, B. & Wahli, W., 2000, ‘Roles of PPARs in health and disease’, Nature, 405(6785), 421–424.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang, Y., Ruta, V., Chen, J., Lee, A. & MacKinnon, R., 2003, ‘The principle of gating charge movement in a voltage-dependent K+ channel’, Nature, 423(6935), 42–48.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, P., Körber, R. & Coppers, M., 2003, Sieben und Siebmaschinen, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

White, W.B. (ed.), 2007, Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, Second Edition, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Yamabe, H., 2013, ‘Influence of Water on the Interface Properties’, in L.F.M. da Silva & C. Sato (eds.), Design of Adhesive Joints Under Humid Conditions, Advanced Structured Materials., pp. 95–111, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 the South African Veterinary Association.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014, Scientists Unravel Mechanism Behind Firefly Flashing, IFLScience.

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, 2003, Distance Education: More Data Could Improve Education’s Ability to Track Technology at Minority Serving Institutions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peters, W.C., 2017, An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Critical Technology Developments and Technology Maturity – PhD thesis, George Washington University, Washington, DC .

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., 2011, Relatives of Flight 93 Victims Run to Keep Memories Alive, New York Times, p. B16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thompson 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Thompson 2006; Weaver & Krasnow 2008).

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

Two authors: (Weaver & Krasnow 2008)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
Abbreviation	J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc.
ISSN (print)	1019-9128
ISSN (online)	2224-9435
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary