Journal Titles Must be Abbreviated

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.

Using Brackets Instead of Superscipt.

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.

Example Extract and Reference List

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.

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