How to format your references using the New Zealand Veterinary Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand 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

Finkbeiner A. JASON past, present, and future: the world’s most independent defence science advisers. Nature 477, 397–399, 2011

A journal article with 2 authors

Mellman I, Clausen BE. Immunology. Beta-catenin balances immunity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329, 767–769, 2010

A journal article with 3 authors

Reinhard CT, Planavsky NJ, Lyons TW. Long-term sedimentary recycling of rare sulphur isotope anomalies. Nature 497, 100–103, 2013

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kitano M, Nakaya M, Nakamura T, Nagata S, Matsuda M. Imaging of Rab5 activity identifies essential regulators for phagosome maturation. Nature 453, 241–245, 2008

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardner S, Birley S. Blogging for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010

An edited book

Shi YQ (ed.). Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008

A chapter in an edited book

Koski E. Clinical Laboratory Data for Biosurveillance. In: Castillo-Chavez C, Chen H, Lober WB, Thurmond M, Zeng D (eds). Infectious Disease Informatics and Biosurveillance: Research, Systems and Case Studies. Pp. 67–87. Springer US, Boston, MA, 2011

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 New Zealand Veterinary Journal.

Blog post

Carpineti A. How The Brightest Supernovae Become Superluminous. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-the-brightest-supernovae-become-superluminous/ (accessed 30 October 2018). 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

Government Accountability Office. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: National Weather Service Modernization and Weather Satellite Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barta ME. Culture, customer-centricity, and customer relationship management in an online postsecondary learning institution. Capella University. 2009

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

Kenigsberg B. David Lynch: The Art Life. New York Times. 2017. C10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Finkbeiner 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Mellman and Clausen 2010; Finkbeiner 2011).

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

Two authors: (Mellman and Clausen 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kitano et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Veterinary Journal
Abbreviation	N. Z. Vet. J.
ISSN (print)	0048-0169
ISSN (online)	1176-0710
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary