How to format your references using the Veterinary Microbiology citation style

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

Gupta, S., 2001. Avoiding ambiguity. Nature 412, 589.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roach, M., Sauermann, H., 2015. ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Founders and joiners. Science 348, 1200–1201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feldman, M.W., Lewontin, R.C., King, M.-C., 2003. Race: a genetic melting-pot. Nature 424, 374.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuhnert, F., Mancuso, M.R., Shamloo, A., Wang, H.-T., Choksi, V., Florek, M., Su, H., Fruttiger, M., Young, W.L., Heilshorn, S.C., Kuo, C.J., 2010. Essential regulation of CNS angiogenesis by the orphan G protein-coupled receptor GPR124. Science 330, 985–989.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle, W., 2017. Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Liu, J., 2011. Advanced Sliding Mode Control for Mechanical Systems: Design, Analysis and MATLAB Simulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Smith, L., 2016. Evidence-Oriented Practice, in: Smith, L. (Ed.), Clinical Practice at the Edge of Care: Developments in Working with At-Risk Children and Their Families. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 49–78.

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 Veterinary Microbiology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. Loads Of Processed Foods And Drinks Are Way Saltier Than You Think [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/loads-of-processed-foods-and-drinks-are-way-saltier-than-you-think/ (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, 2012. School Bullying: Legal Protections for Vulnerable Youth Need to Be More Fully Assessed (No. GAO-12-785T). 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

Sinha, R., 2017. An Integrated Development Environment for the Clara Constraint-Programming Language (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

Saslow, L., 2007. Roosevelt Seeking Schools Superintendent. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gupta, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gupta, 2001; Roach and Sauermann, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Roach and Sauermann, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kuhnert et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Microbiology
Abbreviation	Vet. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0378-1135
ISSN (online)	1873-2542
Scope	Microbiology General Medicine General Veterinary