Vancouver Referencing: An Essential Guide for Students
The Vancouver referencing is used in natural science and medicine. Sometimes this type of reference is also used in technological writings.
Some of the features of Vancouver referencing are discussed below-
1. In the reference list each of the references is numbered
2. The list of the sources are arranged in the order that is used in the text.
3. If there are more than six authors in a source there would be “et al.” after the sixth name.
4. The titles of the Journals are used in form of their official abbreviations.
Example of reference:
“Kannan PK. Digital marketing: A framework, review, and research agenda. International Journal of Research in Marketing. 2017 Mar 1;34(1):22-45.”
Patrias K. Citing medicine: the NLM style guide for authors, editors, and publishers [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007 [updated 2 October 2015; cited 13 October 2016]. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/citingmedicine.
Rules for in-text Citing:
1. Number of the citation is used in the Arabic form and in a bracket.
2. Next the citation is placed in the place
3. If one source is to be cited more than once, the same number is used in every case.
4. If a number of sources are cited on the same page, those would be cited as (3-5) or (2-4, 5).
Examples of in-text citing:
“The first step of good health is good mind” (3, p. 125)
“Furseth and Everett (4) maintain that the primary reason behind the use of Chicago references tool for making bibliography is the idea of research as a collective endeavor. Research should be verifiable, and those reading your work should be able to find those sources your material is based upon.”