Veterinary Science  Tags: veterinary_science animal_health  

Journal Article:

Goff, LM, Jeffcott, LB, Jasiewicz, J & McGowan, CM 2008, 'Structural and biomechanical aspects of equine sacroiliac joint function and their relationship to clinical disease', Veterinary Journal, vol. 176, no. 3, pp. 281-293.

Book:

McDonald, P 2002, Animal nutrition, 6th edn, Prentice Hall, Harlow.

Book Chapter

Jeffcott, L, Evans, DE & Knight PK 2006, 'Exercise physiology' in The equine manual, eds AJ Higgins & IM Wright, 2nd edn, Saunders, London.

Web page

Taylor, RM 2006, Changing assessment practices. Planning and evaluating the impact of innovations on students' experiences of assessment. Uniserve Science Education Conference, University of Sydney (p126-132), viewed 22 April 2009, <http://science.uniserve.edu.au/pubs/procs/2006/taylor.pdf>.

Lecture notes

Kennedy, S 2009, 'Evaluating information sources', lecture notes distributed in the unit 1A VETS 1030 Animal Husbandry, University of Sydney, Camperdown on 2 April.

For more information and examples please visit the Flinders University website

When you refer to an author's work in your essay or article you should give the author's surname and the year the information was published and include relevant page numbers when quoting or paraphrasing e.g.: 

It is advisable to use an anaesthetic when conducting dental surgery on lions or other big cats (Reading 1977 pp. 3-7). 

The reference is inserted before any concluding punctuation (eg full stop).

Multiple authors

When there are two or three authors for a single reference separate them with an '&' . When there are four or more include the first author followed by et al. When you refer to several works to support the same point put them within one set of brackets separated by a semi-colon with the earliest first:

... occur more often in Himalayan, Abyssinian, Persian and Siamese cats than in other breeds (Blaxter et al. 1986; Taboada & Grooters 2002)

Sometimes you may need to reference an original idea by one author found in a work by another author.  It is better to read and refer to the original but if this is not possible you should refer to both works in the text as below:

Clarke's 1992 study (cited in Brown 1995, p.10) demonstrates that ... OR Brown (1995, p.10) in reporting a 1992 study by Clarke states ...

You should only include the work you have actually read in your reference list.

A chapter in an edited work should  be referred to in an in-text citation by giving the author of the chapter itself rather than the entire work. 

If you are referencing two or more works by the same author published in the same year, distinguish between the different publications by adding a lowercase letter to the date of each, beginning with a, then b then c and so on e.g.:

In his initial study Jones (1985a) found this to be true. However, subsequent studies (Jones 1985b; Harris 1987) have failed to arrive at the same conclusion.

For more information and examples please visit the Flinders University website.

Plagiarism is when the words, ideas or recorded thoughts of another are passed off as your own without the original source being properly cited (referenced).

Have a look at this short interactive tutorial on what is plagiarism and how to avoid it.

Plagiarism & academic honesty 

Need help on the priniciples of referencing? Try the following self-guided tutorial;

A print version is also available.

Journal publishers include instructions about required reference formatting in their online guidance for authors eg the Australian Veterinary Journal guidelines.

Make life easier for yourself by using Endnote to manage your references. You can get started by using our online tutorial or sign up for an Endnote class.