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Vancouver - Referencing Guide

Journal Articles

Information

  This information relates to journal articles from print sources.

  For journal articles from electronic sources, please see E-journals.

  Only the author's initials are given, regardless of the presentation of the author's name on the journal article.

  List the first six authors followed by et al.

  Capitalisation practice should also be consistent - capitalise only the first word of the article title, proper nouns and acronyms.

  The titles of journals should be abbreviated as they appear in the NLM Catalog.

  Volume, issue and page numbers are given but not labeled.

  To indicate a page range use 123-9, 126-34 or 111-222. If you refer to only one page, use only 111.

Format

Standard format for citation

#. Author of article AA, Author of article BB, Author of article CC. Title of article. Abbreviated Title of Journal. Year;vol(issue):page number(s).

Examples

Journal articles

1. Drummond PD. Triggers of motion sickness in migraine sufferers. Headache. 2005;45(6):653-6.

2. Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347(7):284-7.

3. Geck MJ, Yoo S, Wang JC. Assessment of cervical ligamentous injury in trauma patients using MRI. J Spinal Disord. 2001;14(5):371-7.

Journal article: More than six authors

4. Gillespie NC, Lewis RJ, Pearn JH, Bourke ATC, Holmes MJ, Bourke JB, et al. Ciguatera in Australia: occurrence, clinical features, pathophysiology and management. Med J Aust. 1986;145:584-90.

Journal article: No author

5. 21st century heart solution may have a sting in the tail. BMJ. 2002;325(7537):184.

Journal article: Organization as author

6. Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension. 2002;40(5):679-86.

Journal article: Volume with supplement

7. Geraud G, Spierings EL, Keywood C. Tolerability and safety of frovatriptan with short- and long-term use for treatment of migraine and in comparison with sumatriptan. Headache. 2002;42 Suppl 2:S93-9.

Journal article: Issue with supplement

8. Glauser TA. Integrating clinical trial data into clinical practice. Neurology. 2002;58(12 Suppl 7):S6-12.

Journal article: Volume with part

9. Abend SM, Kulish N. The psychoanalytic method from an epistemological viewpoint. Int J Psychoanal. 2002;83(Pt 2):491-5.

Journal article: Issue with part

10. Ahrar K, Madoff DC, Gupta S, Wallace MJ, Price RE, Wright KC. Development of a large animal model for lung tumors. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2002;13(9 Pt 1):923-8.

Journal article: Issue with no volume

11. Banit DM, Kaufer H, Hartford JM. Intraoperative frozen section analysis in revision total joint arthroplasty. Clin Orthop. 2002;(401):230-8.

Journal article: Forthcoming

12. Staartjes VE, Siccoli A, de Wispelaere MP, Schröder, ML. Do we need 2 years of follow-up? Spine J. Forthcoming 2019.


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