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VANCOUVER STYLE

It was created in 1978 by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors - ICMJE. It bears the name Vancouver because it was in this city where the meeting of the committee, also called Vancouver Group, was held.  It is the style used for the area of Medicine and Health Sciences, has the support of the National Library of Medicine of the United States and is recognized by Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals - URMs.

In August 2020 the U.S. National Library of Medicine published the Complete Manual of Vancouver Style.

In 2023 the latest version of the Vancouver Style Recommendations: Recommendations for the Conduct, Submission, Editing, and Publication of Scientific Papers in Medical Journals publication of scholarly work in medical journals was published.

 

HOW TO CITE

The in-text citation consists of a correlative Arabic numeral (1), (2), etc. Although it is usually enclosed in parentheses, it can also be enclosed in square brackets and in superscript. If more than one citation is placed in a row, they are grouped in the same parenthesis and separated by a comma or a hyphen if they are correlative (3,5,16-19).

 

NORMA VANCOUVER

Complete book:

Author(s). Book title. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher; year.

Chapter of book:

Author(s) of chapter. Title of the chapter. In: Director/Coordinator/Editor of the book. Title of the book. Edition. Place of publication: Publisher; year. initial-final page of the chapter.

Articles:

Author(s). Title of the article. International abbreviation of the journal. year; volume (number): initial-final page of the article.

Articles with DOI

Author/s. Title of the article. International abbreviation of the journal. year; volume (number): initial-final page of the article. doi: https://doi.org/XX.XXXXX/XXXXX

Web site:

Author/s. Title [Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Date of publication [revised; accessed]. Available at: electronic address.

Communications and papers:

Author(s) of the communication / paper. Title of the communication / paper. In: Official title of the Congress. Place of publication: Publisher; year. initial-final page of the communication / paper.

 

BIBLIOGRAPHIC MANAGERS

Bibliographic managers are bibliographic programs or applications designed to:

  • Assist users in compiling bibliographies.
  • Manage existing information in one or more bibliographic databases.
  • They were originally conceived to facilitate the inclusion of bibliographic citations in research papers.
  • Easily exchange bibliographic information among hundreds of available citation styles.
  • Creation of new styles by the user according to the requirements of publishers or journals.

Mendeley is a free bibliographic manager that allows you to organize documents in the cloud by accessing them from any computer with an internet connection and use them in your scientific work. In addition to serving as a search engine for scientific information, Mendeley also functions as an academic social network.

EndNote basic is an online bibliographic reference manager from Clarivate Analytics. It is available to Universities through the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), as its license is included in the Web of Science national license.

Zotero is an open source application that manages bibliographic citations from the browser. You simply need to have the plugin installed in your browser, for example, Firefox or Chrome. It also offers you the possibility to download a desktop application.

 

OPEN CITATIONS(I4OC)

The Initiative for Open Citations I4OC is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.

The aim of this initiative is to promote the availability of data on citations that are structured, separable, and open. Structured means the data representing each publication and each citation instance are expressed in common, machine-readable formats, and that these data can be accessed programmatically. Separable means the citation instances can be accessed and analyzed without the need to access the source bibliographic products (such as journal articles and books) in which the citations are created. Open means the data are freely accessible and reusable.

RETIC supports the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), championing open science and transparent research. AJO’s manuscript references are made freely available via Crossref's Metadata Delivery services. This ensures global accessibility to our citation data, fostering knowledge dissemination, collaboration, and a more inclusive scholarly landscape.