Cite Your Sources: Vancouver

An overview of the four steps for creating references- records, organize, cite, and list.

Gives examples of reference types, internal citations and reference pages

Citing Medicine, 2nd edition. The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers. PDF version for downloading.

The Vancouver Style is formally known as Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations). It was developed in Vancouver in 1978 by editors of medical journals and well over 1,000 medical journals (including ICMJE members BMJ, CMAJ, JAMA & NEJM) use this style. This user guide explains how to cite references in Vancouver Style, both within the text of a paper and in a reference list, and gives examples of commonly used types of references.

Vancouver, a "numbered" style, follows rules established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors . It is also known as: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals; from Monash Univeristy

International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Sample References; from the National Library of Medicine / National Institutes Health

From the University of Auckland, Philson Library; Provides basic elements of a reference, shows examples of different types of references for journal articles, books, web sites. etc, shows features of the Vancouver style such as layout and punctuation.

From the University of Western Australia; look at the second reference on this page for a journal article from a LIBRARY DATABASE - this is what you will need to use!

From the University of Western Australia; Shows you how to cite a short and long quotations and how to re-cite the same source but different pages

From the University of Western Australia; Gives you an example of a paper with internal citations and a references page