How to format your references using the Veterinary Record citation style

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

TURNER, M. (2015) Ecology: Mangrove maintenance. Nature 526, 515.

A journal article with 2 authors

KRESS, T.L. and GUTHRIE, C. (2006) Molecular biology. Accurate RNA siting and splicing gets help from a DEK-hand. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312, 1886–1887.

A journal article with 3 authors

ARJONA, A., ESCUDERO, M. and GÓMEZ, C.M. (2014) Updating of attentional and premotor allocation resources as function of previous trial outcome. Scientific reports 4, 4526.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

VERLET, J.R.R., BRAGG, A.E., KAMMRATH, A., CHESHNOVSKY, O. and NEUMARK, D.M. (2005) Comment on “Characterization of excess electrons in water-cluster anions by quantum simulations.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, 1769; author reply 1769.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

RÖMER, H. (2004) Theoretical Optics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

NEUZIL, J., PERVAIZ, S. and FULDA, S., eds (2014) Mitochondria: The Anti- cancer Target for the Third Millennium. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

FERRARI, A., REVERBERI, S. and BENEDETTI, M.G. (2013) Deformità in cavismo del piede. In L’arto inferiore nella paralisi cerebrale infantile: Semeiotica e chirurgia funzionale. Eds S. Reverberi and M.G. Benedetti. Springer. pp 111–117.

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 Record.

Blog post

LUNTZ, S. (2015) Quantum Equations Suggest Big Bang Never Happened. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/quantum-equations-dispute-big-bang/. Accessed October 30, 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 (2000) Intellectual Property: Deposits of Biological Materials in Support of Certain Patent Applications. GAO-01-49. 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

LACKEY, G.M. (2015) The efficacy of using a natural soil additive for the establishment, survival and diversity of native prairie and spontaneously colonizing plant communities on unirrigated green roofs in a humid subtropical climate.

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. (2017) Life and Death Get Him Talking. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turner 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kress and Guthrie 2006; Turner 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kress and Guthrie 2006)
Three or more authors: (Verlet and others 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Record
Abbreviation	Vet. Rec.
ISSN (print)	2042-7670
Scope	General Medicine General Veterinary