Vancouver Citation Style  Tags: referencing medndent citation undergrad postgrad  

In the Vancouver Style journal titles are abbreviated. 

Abbreviations for journal titles can be searched for on PubMed.

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

While the preferred convention for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at UWA is to use superscipt for in-text citing, it is also correct in the Vancouver style to enclose the citation number in round brackets: (3) or (3, 5, 9) or (3-5).

Whichever method you choose - be consistent.

How to cite using the Vancouver style

In the Vancouver style, a superscipt numeral is placed in the text at the point where you refer to someone else's work - ie, at the point of citation. Full details of the reference is then listed at the end of your document in numerical order. If the same reference is re-used it retains the same number and appears only once in your list of references.

An example piece of text and reference list

An unhealthy diet, obesity and physical inactivity play a role in the onset of Type 2 diabetes,¹ but it has been shown that increased physical activity substantially reduces the risk² and participation in regular physical activity is one of the major recommendations of the evidence based guidelines for the primary prevention of the disease.¹

According to the 2004-05 National Health Survey, more than half a million Australians (3.5% of the population) have diabetes mellitus which had been medically diagnosed and most of these people have the Type 2 condition.³ Gestational diabetes is also on the increase rising, steadily between 2000–01 and 2005–06.⁴

Approximately two thirds of those with diabetes have been prescribed medication³ but it is of concern that a recent review of the literature found that many people do not take their medication as prescribed.⁵ Many patients also self monitor the disease by measuring their blood glucose levels with a glucose meter but Song and Lipman⁶ have concerns about how well this is managed.

References

1. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Diabetes: Australian facts 2008 [Internet]. 2008 [cited 2009 Mar 15]; (AIHW cat. no. CVD 40). Available from: http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/index.cfm/title/10394

2. Gill JM, Cooper AR. Physical activity and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus [Internet]. Sports Medicine. 2008 [cited 2009 Mar 15]; 38(10):807-24. Available from: Medline.

3. Australian Bureau of Statistics. National Health Survey: summary of results, Australia 2004-05 [Internet]. 2006 [cited 2009 Mar 16]; (ABS cat. no. 4364.0). Available from: http://www.abs.gov.au

4. Templeton M. Gestational diabetes mellitus in Australia, 2005-06. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; 2008.

5. Haynes R, Ackloo E, Sahota N, McDonald H, Yao X. Interventions for enhancing medication adherence. Cochrane Database Syst Rev [Internet]. 2008 [cited 2009 Mar 17]. Available from: http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD000011/frame.html

6. Song M, Lipman TH. Concept analysis: self-monitoring in type 2 diabetes mellitus. Int J Nurs Stud [Internet]. 2008 [cited 2009 Mar 15]; 45(11):1700-10. Available from: Science Direct.