How to format your references using the Veterinary Pathology citation style

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

Lewis R. Chemistry in context. Nature. 2007;446(7134):464–465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenthal Y, Broccoli AJ. Atmospheric science. In search of paleo-ENSO. Science. 2004;304(5668):219–221.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mosey NJ, Müser MH, Woo TK. Molecular mechanisms for the functionality of lubricant additives. Science. 2005;307(5715):1612–1615.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brar GA, Kiburz BM, Zhang Y, Kim J-E, White F, Amon A. Rec8 phosphorylation and recombination promote the step-wise loss of cohesins in meiosis. Nature. 2006;441(7092):532–536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bains G. Cultural DNA. John Wiley & Sons, Inc 2015.

An edited book

Almond RG. Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment. Mislevy RJ, Steinberg LS, Yan D, Williamson DM, eds. Springer 2015. (Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences).

A chapter in an edited book

Nguyen HT. On Random Sets and Belief Functions. In: Yager RR, Liu L, eds. Classic Works of the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Belief Functions. Springer 2008:105–116.

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 Pathology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Indonesia Can’t Stamp Out Fires That Have Cast A Haze Over South-East Asia. IFLScience. IFLScience 2015:

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. Property Management: NASA’s Goal of Increasing Equipment Reutilization May Fall Short without Further Efforts. U.S. Government Printing Office 2009 Jan. Report No.: GAO-09-187.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Curtis KJ. Mozambican national anthems: Memory, performance, and nation-building. University of Maryland, College Park 2010:

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

Brantley B. Curtain’s Up. Adulthood Can Wait. New York Times. 2017:C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^3,6–8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Pathology
Abbreviation	Vet. Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0300-9858
ISSN (online)	1544-2217
Scope	General Veterinary