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Vancouver Style Guide: Websites, blogs & social media

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

Website, blogs & social media

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:

Measurement and gathering of economic, geographical, age profiles, and educational data of health service users can all help end inequality in health outcomes.12

Reference: 

#. Author(s). Webpage title [Internet]. Location: Publisher; Year of publication [updated Year Month Day; cited Year Month Day]. Available from: URL​

Example:

12. American Medical Association. Medical leaders urge collection of demographic information as a step toward ending health care disparities [Internet]. Chicago: American Medical Association; 2011[updated 2011 April 28; cited 2011 May 4th]. Available from: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/news/news/medical-leaders-urge-collection-demographic.page


Note: If no date of publication is available, use (undated) or (no date) instead of the date. This shows you have not just forgotten to include the date.

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:

Walsh's blog post highlights Lorenzo Bini Smaghi's interpretation of the Basel III agreement on the "real" european economy.13

Reference:

#. Author(s) Last name Initials. Title of blog entry. Year Month Day of blog entry [cited Year Month Day]. In: Title of blog [Internet]. City of publication: Publisher. Year Month Day of publication - .[pagination of blog entry]. Available from: URL

Example:

13. Walsh B. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi on the impact of Basel III.  2011 April 2 [cited 2011 May 4]. In: The Irish Economy [Internet]. Dublin: Irish Economy. 2008 December 2 - .[about 2 screen]. Available from: http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/2011/04/02/lorenzo-bini-smaghi-on-the-impact-of-basel-iii/

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:

Milo was treated for a severe abscess on his back and chest wall at UCD Veterinary Hopsital.15

Reference: 

#. Author Surname Initials or Facebook name. Title of post or first few words: facebook post url Year Month Day of Tweet [cited Year Month Day] [Facebook]. Available from: Facebook account url.

Example:

15. UCD Veterinary Hospital. Milo's story: https://www.facebook.com/ucdvet/20150417/milo 2015 April 17 [cited 2015 May 1] [Facebook]. Available from: https://www.facebook.com/ucdvet

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:

Professor John Crown comments on the shockingly persistence of waiting lists in the Irish Healthcare system.14

Reference:

#. Author Surname Initials or Twitter name. Entire tweet or first few words: tweet url Year Month Day of Tweet [cited Year Month Day] [Tweet]. Available from: Twitter account url.

Example:

14. ProfJohnCrown. The waiting list story inhabits that increasingly crowded Irish healthcare borderland between tragedy and hilarity: https://twitter.com/ProfJohnCrown/status/619996475267883008 2015 July 11 [cited 2015 July 20] [Tweet]. Available from: @ProfJohnCrown.