Vancouver system is one of the most commonly used methods of writing a reference. This is a specific referencing and citation style used in medical and scientific writing.
The sources are numbered in the order they appear in your work, so your first citation is number 1, your first source. Hence every time, you refer to that source, it is number 1. So, it starts at the beginning. But if you use it again on page three, it’s also number one down on page three. The list at the end of the work is in numerical order by appearance (1, 2, 3)
Vancouver-style in-text citations
The information given in the statements below is the same and both are accepted as per Vancouver style as the number comes at the end and after the full stop. However, in the 1st example, the number is within the parenthesis and the second one is with the superscript.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that 10,700 people died of Malaria in Kenya in 2020. (1)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports that 10,700 people died of Malaria in Kenya in 2020 1
Here is another one, this is within the sentence,
A study by Njuguna et al. (2) assessed the impact of a mass ITN distribution campaign in western Kenya and found that the campaign led to significant increases in ITN ownership and use.
A study by Njuguna et al. 2 assessed the impact of a mass ITN distribution campaign in western Kenya and found that the campaign led to significant increases in ITN ownership and use.
Reference list: Google Scholar
- Different types of sources – different formatting. You need to make sure that you are getting some help to figure out if it’s a book, an article, an online website, or an online journal article. They are all a little bit different on Google Scholar with your source in a small link for the ‘cite’ button down there. Once you click on that, another window will pop up, and you need to go down there and click on Vancouver to choose it. You are going to copy it and then you will paste that into your references.
- Scribbr, Cite This for Me, EasyBib, Bibme – You can also use these citation generators to make your reference list.
How To Do It on Scribber
First, you need to paste your Source Link in the URL and choose Vancouver over here. if you don’t select Vancouver, you’ll get the wrong formatting. Then you click ‘Cite,’ you should find your Source right down there and then you can click to save it, it will save, and you can copy and paste it out of there and Scribber, and these sites will also keep track of a list of those for you if you log in and create an account.
Check your formatting
Google Scholar and the citation generators may create some errors for you.
There are 6 elements to be focused on
- Reference number
- Author(s)
- Title of the work
- Journal Title
- Date Published
- Volume and Page numbers
For example,
- Skalsky K, Yahav D, Bishara J, Pitlik S, Leibovici L, Paul M. Treatment of human brucellosis: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Br Med J (Clin Red Ed). 2008 Mar 29; 336 (7646): 701-4
- Puri S, O’Brian MR. The hmuQ and hmuD genes from Bradyrhizobium japonicum encode heme-degrading enzymes. J Bacteriol (Internet). 2006 Sep (cited 2012 Aug 2); 188(18): 6476- 82. Available from: http://jb.asm.org/cgi/content/full/188/18/6476?view=long&pmid=16952937.doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2009.03.009
- Reference number: You have got it as 1 & 2 – That happens with Microsoft Word with automatic numbering. You can change the order and it will change the numbers automatically.
- Author(s): You can see a long list in the first example and 2 in the second, there is a capital letter at their last name as an initial, and there is a comma in between names and at the end of all names, there is a full stop.
- Title of the Work: It’s got a full stop at the end and a capital letter at only the beginning
- Journal Title: Those are abbreviated and not the full name, however, your Google Scholar should be able to recognise them
- Date Published: It comes in the format of Year, Month and day
- Volume and Page numbers: It comes in the format, the volume, and the page number. That’s the number of the journal article, colon, and the page numbers. Lastly, we have got internet source information, you can see there’s nothing, that’s because it’s from an actual Journal like a paper Journal, this is an internet source. It’s got the day that it was cited and down there it’s got where it’s available from. And that’s the URL.
Conclusion
It’s essential to know the correct format, key elements, and the order in which they must be mentioned, especially when using a specific referencing technique like the Vancouver Referencing Technique.
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