Essay Writing Help - Vancouver Referencing

Vancouver Referencing: An Overview

Vancouver Referencing is used by most medical journals and is akin to that of the BMJ. In-text referencing in the Vancouver Referencing Style is carried out by using sequential superscript 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 using Vancouver, 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 is referenced thus in Vancouver:

Taylor, J. Medical Matters. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2006.

To cite a journal article using Vancouver, 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 Vancouver Referencing System would read like this:

Brown,J. Referencing Medicine. Referencing Styles. 2 (3); pp. 33-49.

To cite an electronic source in Vancouver, 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 Vancouver University Referencing Style would be cited thus:

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

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