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How to Do Vancouver Style Referencing?

Vancouver is a referencing style commonly used in science and medicine and consist of two parts:

• In-text Citation- Whenever you quotes or paraphrase someone’s work in your text.
• End-Text Referencing- The complete details of the in citation text is given at the end of the text in the reference list.

Vancouver Referencing For Research Papers/Journals:

Whenever you cite a research in your paper, your Vancouver reference style should follow the following format:

In-text Citation:

• Unlike APA style referencing where author name is used in the text, Vancouver uses numbers in EITHER square bracket [ ], curved bracket ( ) or as superscripts 1, 2, 3
• Same number will be used for each of the source used.

Examples: According to a study, frequent use of amoxicillin lead to bacterial resistance [1]. According to a study, frequent use of amoxicillin lead to bacterial resistance (1). According to a study, frequent use of amoxicillin lead to bacterial resistance 1

References: All the sources are listed under the reference section. Each citation numbered above is detailed under the reference section in the following way:

The above example consist of:

• Author’s Name:

NUMBER OF AUTHORS	INSTRUCTION	EXAMPLE
One author	Surname followed by 2 initials.	Shelton DB
2-6 authors	List the names of all authors.	Hallar AH, Amorgui JD, Jeremiah IM, Casillas J, Schulman CI, Manning RJ
6 or more	Name of 1st 6 authors, then add ‘et-al’	Hallar AH, Amorgui JD, Jeremiah IM, Casillas J, Schulman CI, Manning RJ, et al.

• Article Name: use only 1st sentence of the title.
• Journal Title: Journal titles are abbreviated or used in short forms.
• Date: With the format YY:MM:DD
• Volume Number and pages

All the above components are combined with the citation number under the following format:

Format:
Number of citation. Author AA, Author BB. Title of article. Abbreviated title of Journal [Internet]. Date of publication YYYY MM [cited YYYY Mon DD];volume number(issue number):page numbers
Example:
Hallar AH, Amorgui JD, Jeremiah IM, Casillas J, Schulman CI, Manning RJ, et al. The effect of antibiotic on bacterial resistance. J Am Coll Surg. 2005 Jun 14;200(6):869-75

Vancouver Referencing For Books:

Book referencing is almost same as journal or article referencing but has few added components as explained below:

• In-text citation- In-text citation remains same for all sources whether it is article, book, encyclopedia or any other source.
• References: Is a bit different as illustrated as follow:

The components of book reference include following:

• 1Author’s Name -Same as for journals and articles.
• Book Name
• Edition- No need of mentioning if its 1st edition.
• Place of Publication
• Name of Publisher
• Year of publication
• Paging

As combined under the following format:

Format:
Author AA. Title of book. Number of Edition. Place of Publication: Publisher; Year of publication. Paging.
Example:
Carlson BM. Human embryology and developmental biology. 5th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2010. 546 p

Vancouver Referencing For Dictionaries and Encyclopedia:

• In-text Citation- Same as research and book citation.
• Reference: See the following illustration for referencing the dictionary and encyclopedia.

References consist of the following elements:

• Title of encyclopedia
• Place of Publication
• Publisher
• Year of Publication
• Title of the article
• Updated date (given in encyclopedia)
• Citation date (given)
• Number of pages or screen
• Available from (URL)

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Additional Information:

• Harvard Reference Guide
• APA Referencing Guide
• Oscola Reference Guide