Vancouver Citation Style  Tags: referencing medndent citation undergrad postgrad  

Introduction

• Getting Started
• The Vancouver Style
• The Reference format for Vancouver
• Where to go for Information
• All Reference Examples - Download the PDF

Reference formats

• Act of Parliament
• AIHW and ABS Serial Publications on the Internet
• Book - Chapter
• Book - Section
• Book/eBook - 1-6 Authors
• Book/eBook - Edited
• Book/eBook - More than 6 authors
• Clin-eguide
• Cochrane Review
• Conference Papers or Proceedings
• Dictionary - Print and Online
• Dynamed
• Fact Sheet - Print or Online
• Film or Broadcast
• Journal Article - Print and Online
• Lecture Notes and Personal Communications
• Podcast
• Thesis - Print and Online
• Web Pages
• Details to Record from Web Pages

Citing in Vancouver - Example text and reference list

• Journal Titles Must be Abbreviated
• Citing a Specific Page

More information

• What is referencing and citing?
• Paraphrasing and direct quotation
• When one author cites another
• When should you cite?

Vancouver and EndNote

There are many different styles of referencing.
The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at UWA uses the Vancouver style of referencing.
Check with your tutor, supervisor or lecturer if you are unsure which style you should be using.

Citing in the text
In the Vancouver style, whenever you refer to another author's work in your work you must cite your source by inserting a number in your text.

Reference List
At the end of your work, under the heading References, write a full description of each source you have cited, listing them in numerical order.

The Vancouver style is a numerical system.

A superscript number is inserted in your text at the point where you refer to (cite) your source of information. A consecutive number is allocated to each source as it is referred to for the first time.

This number becomes the unique identifier of that source and is reused each time that particular reference is cited in the text.

This number is referred to as an in-text citation.

Use superscript numerals outside periods, commas and quotation marks, inside colons and semicolons. When 2 or more references are cited at a given place in your document, use hyphens to join the first and last numbers of a closed series; use commas without space to separate other parts of a multiple citation.

For example:

As previously reported,^1,3-8,19

There were thousands of cases reported by Edwards and Liu.^3,19

Coronary disease data was summarised by Edwards^3,4

The full details for each citation or reference is then listed at the end of your essay or assignment in the numerical order in which they are cited in the body of your text.

See Reference Formats for details on how to construct references for specific resources such as books, journals and web pages.

Example of a reference to a journal article in the Vancouver style

See the example extract to get a clear picture of what an assignment or essay should look like when it is correctly referenced.

The Vancouver Style is based on a style adapted by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for its databases. The two publications shown below have been used to construct all citation examples in this guide.

Citing Medicine [eBook]

• Patrias K. Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers [Internet]. 2nd ed. Wendling DL, technical editor. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007 [updated 2009 Jan 14; cited 2009 Apr 5]. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine
  
  

In the Vancouver Style, Journal Titles are Abbreviated.

• Abbreviations for journal titles can be searched for on PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

• Click on "Journals Database" and then enter the full journal title to view its abbreviation.

Help on Submitting Articles for Publication in Biomedical Journals:

• International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals.