How to format your references using the Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research. 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

Bender, E., 2014. Developing world: Global warning. Nature 509, S64-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hamanaka, R.B., Chandel, N.S., 2011. Cell biology. Warburg effect and redox balance. Science 334, 1219–1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

James, L.C., Roversi, P., Tawfik, D.S., 2003. Antibody multispecificity mediated by conformational diversity. Science 299, 1362–1367.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Jong, J.J.D., Lucas, L.N., Kellogg, R.M., van Esch, J.H., Feringa, B.L., 2004. Reversible optical transcription of supramolecular chirality into molecular chirality. Science 304, 278–281.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scanlan, E.A., 2009. Fundraising Consultants. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tay, L.Y., Lim, C.P. (Eds.), 2013. Creating Holistic Technology-Enhanced Learning Experiences: Tales from a Future School in Singapore. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Kutnick, P., Blatchford, P., 2014. Improving the Effectiveness of Collaborative Group Work at KS2: Effects on Pupil Attainment, Classroom Behaviour and Attitudes, in: Blatchford, P. (Ed.), Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms: The SPRinG Approach. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 103–127.

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 Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Worldwide Cyberattack Stopped After Sole Researcher Accidentally Discovers Kill Switch [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. High-Performance Computing: High-Speed Computer Networks in the United States, Europe, and Japan (No. IMTEC-91-69). 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

Karasik, B.A., 2015. Tele-collaboration in theatre: Collaboration mgmt tools in a digital and globalized age (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hale, M., 2017. It’s Hard Out There For Mercy Killers. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bender, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Bender, 2014; Hamanaka and Chandel, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hamanaka and Chandel, 2011)
Three or more authors: (de Jong et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research
Abbreviation	J. Vet. Behav.
ISSN (print)	1558-7878
Scope	General Veterinary