How to format your references using the Veterinaria Italiana citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Veterinaria Italiana. 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

Nowotny H. 2013. Preserve the European Research Council’s legacy. Nature, 504, 189.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sininger Y.S. & Cone-Wesson B. 2004. Asymmetric cochlear processing mimics hemispheric specialization. Science, 305, 1581.

A journal article with 3 authors

Storch N.I., Anderson K.R. & Lai D. 2014. Chaotic dynamics of stellar spin in binaries and the production of misaligned hot Jupiters. Science, 345, 1317–1321.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wassen M.J., Venterink H.O., Lapshina E.D. & Tanneberger F. 2005. Endangered plants persist under phosphorus limitation. Nature, 437, 547–550.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stack T., Ostrom L.T. & Wilhelmsen C.A. 2016. Occupational Ergonomics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tsujii H., Kamada T., Shirai T., Noda K., Tsuji H. & Karasawa K. (eds). 2014. Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy: Principles, Practices, and Treatment Planning. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaimontree S., Atkinson K. & Coenen F. 2010. Best Clustering Configuration Metrics: Towards Multiagent Based Clustering. In Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 6th International Conference, ADMA 2010, Chongqing, China, November 19-21, 2010, Proceedings, Part I (L. Cao, Y. Feng, & J. Zhong, eds). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 48–59.

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 Veterinaria Italiana.

Blog post

Fang J. 2016. Rush Hour Traffic For Sharks Peaks Just After Dusk. (https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rush-hour-traffic-for-sharks-peaks-just-after-dusk/ accessed on 30 October 2018).

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. 2012. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Governance Mechanisms for Implementing Management Controls Need to Be Improved.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hong A.N. 2017. A Diastereomeric Strategy in the Construction of Homochiral Metal-Organic Architectures. 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

Hollander S. 2001. The ‘Roswell’ Army Fights for Its Show on the Web.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nowotny, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Nowotny, 2013; Sininger and Cone-Wesson, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Sininger and Cone-Wesson, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wassen et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinaria Italiana
ISSN (print)	0505-401X
ISSN (online)	1828-1427
Scope