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

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

Wood, C.L., 2014. Environment. Environmental change and the ecology of infectious disease. Science 346, 1192.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wood, S.F., Mador, J.K., 2013. Science and regulation. Uncapping conflict of interest? Science 340, 1172–1173.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hautier, Y., Niklaus, P.A., Hector, A., 2009. Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication. Science 324, 636–638.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

West, G.B., Savage, V.M., Gillooly, J., Enquist, B.J., Woodruff, W.H., Brown, J.H., 2003. Physiology: Why does metabolic rate scale with body size? Nature 421, 713; discussion 714.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fryirs, K.A., Brierley, G.J., 2012. Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Carr, B.I. (Ed.), 2016. Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Diagnosis and Treatment, 3rd ed. 2016. ed, Current Clinical Oncology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Böcherer, S., Nagaoka, S., 2014. On p-Adic Properties of Siegel Modular Forms, in: Heim, B., Al-Baali, M., Ibukiyama, T., Rupp, F. (Eds.), Automorphic Forms: Research in Number Theory from Oman, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–66.

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 The Veterinary Journal.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. The Neural Basis For Psychosomatic Illness May Have Been Discovered [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, 2009. Financial Literacy and Education Commission: Progress Made in Fostering Partnerships, but National Strategy Remains Largely Descriptive Rather Than Strategic (No. GAO-09-638T). 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

Tuquero, J.M., 2010. A meta-ethnographic synthesis of support services for adult learners in distance learning programs (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Barron, J., 2016. Once Ordered Removed, Statue Is Now Embraced by Church. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wood, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Wood, 2014; Wood and Mador, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wood and Mador, 2013)
Three or more authors: (West et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Veterinary Journal
Abbreviation	Vet. J.
ISSN (print)	1090-0233
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Veterinary