How to format your references using the Vancouver - Serbian Archives of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vancouver - Serbian Archives of Medicine. 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

Trewavas A. Mindless mastery. Nature. 2002 Feb 21;415(6874):841. PMID: 11859344

A journal article with 2 authors

García-Bellido DC, Collins DH. Moulting arthropod caught in the act. Nature. 2004 May 6;429(6987):40. PMID: 15129272

A journal article with 3 authors

Gugliotti LA, Feldheim DL, Eaton BE. RNA-mediated metal-metal bond formation in the synthesis of hexagonal palladium nanoparticles. Science. 2004 May 7;304(5672):850–2. PMID: 15087507

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Heun P, Laroche T, Shimada K, Furrer P, Gasser SM. Chromosome dynamics in the yeast interphase nucleus. Science. 2001 Dec 7;294(5549):2181–6. PMID: 11739961

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cavalla D. Off-label prescribing - Justifying unapproved medicine. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Manolopoulos Y. R-Trees: Theory and Applications. Nanopoulos A, Papadopoulos AN, Theodoridis Y, editors. London: Springer; 2006. XIX, 194 p. 77 illus. (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing).

A chapter in an edited book

Javed O, Shah M. Object Tracking in a Single Camera. In: Shah M, editor. Automated Multi-Camera Surveillance: Algorithms and Practice. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008. p. 1–13. (The International Series in Video Computing).

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 Vancouver - Serbian Archives of Medicine.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. We’re About To See Jupiter’s Poles In Detail For The First Time Ever [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/were-about-to-see-jupiters-poles-in-detail-for-the-first-time-ever/ (accessed 2018 Oct 30)

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. U.S. Involvement at Major International Air Shows Principally Depends on Agencies’ Missions and Aerospace Companies’ Resources. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Sep. Report No.: GAO-07-1165R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Klippel SA. The Celtic siren: A case study of William Sharp’s seduction experience in which the numinous other is understood and interpreted [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2005.

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

Oestreich JR. Juilliard’s Fast Takes on French Baroque. New York Times. 2016 Nov 10;C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Vancouver - Serbian Archives of Medicine
ISSN (print)	0370-8179
ISSN (online)	2406-0895
Scope