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Vancouver Style Guide: Books

This guide explains how to use the Vancouver Style. It includes a short interactive tutorial.

Books

In-Text-Citation:

Use a superscript number (like this: ¹) in the text at the place where you are indicating that you are citing from a source.

Example: 

It has been generally found that iPod culture is greater in urban areas.¹

Reference:

#. Author Last name Initials. Title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication.

Example:

1. Bull MT. Sound moves: iPod culture and urban experience. London: Routledge; 2007.

In-Text-Citation:

Use a superscript number (like this: ¹) in the text at the place where you are indicating that you are citing from a source.

Example:

Scientists made a huge leap when it was discovered that HIV was the causative agent of AIDS.²

Reference:

#. Author(s) Last name Initials. Title. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication.

Example:

2. Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.

In-Text-Citation:

Use a superscript number (like this: ¹) in the text at the place where you are indicating that you are citing from a source.

Example:
Those working in community health, can use GIS mapping systems to plot the physical health outcomes for a geographical population.³
Reference: 

#. First six author(s) Last name Initials, et al. Title. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication.

Example:

3. Phillips H, Rogers B, Bernheim KL, Liu H, Hunter PG, Evans J, et al. Community medicine in action. New York: Eastern Press; 2005.

In-Text-Citation:

Use a superscript number (like this: ¹) in the text at the place where you are indicating that you are citing from a source.

Example:

It was found that numbers of lambs born in in Ireland in the year 2000 increased significantly compared to both the 1999 and 1998 figures.4

Reference:

#.Organization name. Title. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication.

Example:

4. Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. Pedigree sheep breed improvement programme: performance results for lambs summer 2000. Cavan (Ireland): Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development; 2000.

In-Text Citation:

Use a superscript number (like this: ¹) in the text at the place where you are indicating that you are citing from a source.

Example:

The ethics of feminism globally have shifted seismically from post-world war ​era to the present day.5

Reference:

#. Editor(s) Last name Initials, editors. Title. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication.

Example:

5. Whisnant R, DesAutels P, editors. Global feminist ethics. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 2008.

In-Text-Citation:

Use a superscript number (like this: ¹) in the text at the place where you are indicating that you are citing from a source.

Example:

Chromosome changes can be seen over the course of growth of solid tumors.7

Reference:

#. Author(s) Last name Initials. Title of chapter. In: Editor(s) Last name Initials, editors. Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher; year of publication. Page numbers.

Example:

7. Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.

In-Text-Citation:

Use a superscript number (like this: ¹) in the text at the place where you are indicating that you are citing from a source.​

Example:

Citing in medicine provides extensive guidance on how to cite a wide variety of reference formats.6

Reference: 

#. Authors Last name Initials. Title [Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Date of Publication/Last updated [cited Year Month Day] Extent. Available from: URL

Example: 

6. Patrias K, Wendling D, editors. Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007 [cited 2015 March 12]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7256/