Essay Writing Help - BMJ Referencing

BMJ Referencing: An Overview

Vancouver Referencing is by the BMJ. In-text referencing is structured by using superscript sequential numerical indicators which are then identified in a numerical reference list at the end of the document, as with usual footnote referencing.
To cite a book in BMJ, use the following format:

Author - surname and name/initials followed by a full stop
Title followed by a full stop
Place of publication followed by a colon
Publisher followed by a semi-colon
Year of publication followed by a full stop.

Hence, a book referenced in BMJ is cited thusly:
Brown, D. Medical Reference. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2006.
To cite a journal article using BMJ, use the following format:

Author - surname and name/initials followed by a full stop
Title of journal article followed by a full stop
Title of journal
Publication date in full followed by a semi-colon
Volume with issue number in brackets followed by a semi-colon
Page numbers followed by a full stop

Thus, the citation of a journal article in the BMJ Referencing System would read like this:
Brown, J. Referencing Medicine. Referencing Styles. 2 (3); pp. 33-49.
To cite an electronic source in BMJ, use this format:

Author - surname and name/initials followed by a full stop
Title of article
Date in square brackets followed by a semi-colon
Volume number and issue number (no space, latter in round brackets) followed by a colon
Page numbers in square brackets followed by a full stop
'Available from' followed by a colon and the URL underlined.

Hence, an electronic source in the BMJ Referencing Style would be cited thus:

Taylor,John. BMJ Referencing[9 August 2007]; 2(4): [pp. 33-45]. Availablefrom: <http://www.referencingonline>

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