How to format your references using the Veterinary Quarterly citation style

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

Moritz MA. 2012. Wildfires ignite debate on global warming. Nature. 487(7407):273.

A journal article with 2 authors

Duggavathi R, Murphy BD. 2009. Development. Ovulation signals. Science. 324(5929):890–891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Finkelstein IJ, Visnapuu M-L, Greene EC. 2010. Single-molecule imaging reveals mechanisms of protein disruption by a DNA translocase. Nature. 468(7326):983–987.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Noh J-K, Kim S, Kim H, Choi W, Chang W, Byun D, Cho B-W, Chung KY. 2014. Mechanochemical synthesis of Li₂MnO₃ shell/LiMO₂ (M = Ni, Co, Mn) core-structured nanocomposites for lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep. 4:4847.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews GA. 2015. Pesticides. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pan J-S, Krömer P, Snášel V, editors. 2014. Genetic and Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, ICGEC 2013, August 25 - 27, 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Alba E, Luque G. 2006. Performance of Distributed GAs on DNA Fragment Assembly. In: Nedjah N, Mourelle L de M, Alba E, editors. Parallel Evolutionary Computations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 97–115.

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 Quarterly.

Blog post

Hale T. 2017. Another Newly Discovered Asteroid Will Fly By Earth Tonight. IFLScience.

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. 1973. Protest of Air Force Contract Award. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Compagna-Doll VA. 2017. Unearthing the Third: The Crone in Depth Psychotherapy [Doctoral dissertation]. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Baker L. 2009. Redevelopment Project Doubles as Social Experiment. New York Times.:B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moritz 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Duggavathi and Murphy 2009; Moritz 2012).

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

Two authors: (Duggavathi and Murphy 2009)
Three or more authors: (Noh et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Quarterly
Abbreviation	Vet. Q.
ISSN (print)	0165-2176
ISSN (online)	1875-5941
Scope	General Veterinary