How to format your references using the Veterinary Sciences citation style

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

Dickson, D. Weaving a Social Web. Nature 2001, 414, 587.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abrahamson, J.; Dinniss, J. Ball Lightning Caused by Oxidation of Nanoparticle Networks from Normal Lightning Strikes on Soil. Nature 2000, 403, 519–521.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roy, M.; Jordan, T.H.; Pederson, J. Colorado Plateau Magmatism and Uplift by Warming of Heterogeneous Lithosphere. Nature 2009, 459, 978–982.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, C.-H.; Budas, G.R.; Churchill, E.N.; Disatnik, M.-H.; Hurley, T.D.; Mochly-Rosen, D. Activation of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase-2 Reduces Ischemic Damage to the Heart. Science 2008, 321, 1493–1495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Todeschini, R.; Baccini, A. Handbook of Bibliometric Indicators; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2016; ISBN 9783527681969.

An edited book

Security and Trust Management: 6th International Workshop, STM 2010, Athens, Greece, September 23-24, 2010, Revised Selected Papers; Cuellar, J., Lopez, J., Barthe, G., Pretschner, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; Vol. 6710; ISBN 9783642224430.

A chapter in an edited book

Hongfang, L.; Hao, Z. Study of Online Test and Fault Diagnosis Technology Based on ATmega128. In Future Communication, Computing, Control and Management: Volume 2; Zhang, Y., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 29–35 ISBN 9783642273131.

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews, R. Why Is Italy Experiencing So Many Earthquakes At The Moment? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-italy-experiencing-so-many-earthquakes/ (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 Increasing Use of Data Telecommunications Calls for Stronger Protection and Improved Economies; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1980;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shendge, P.N. Improvement in Estimation of Carrier Frequency Offset in Wireless Networks. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

St. John Kelly, E. Cobble Hill as Baden-Baden. New York Times 1998, 1410.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Veterinary Sciences
Abbreviation	Vet. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2306-7381
Scope