Vancouver Style
Vancouver style (also referred to as ICMJE and Uniform Requirements Style) is a citation style used heavily in the health and biomedical sciences. The Vancouver style uses the citation-sequence system, meaning that references at the end of your paper are numbered in the order in which they appear in your paper (like AMA style), rather than listed alphabetically by author (like APA style).
- Vancouver Style (BCIT)An introduction to Vancouver Style and examples from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
- Samples of Formatted ReferencesThe International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) offers guidance to authors in its publication Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations), which was formerly the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts.
Online Manual
- Citing Medicine, 2nd edition
The full, in-depth guide to citing references in Vancouver style from the National Library of Medicine.
Journal Title Abbreviations
Another important characteristic of Vancouver style references is the use of journal title abbreviations rather than full titles. Journal title abbreviations are standardized and can be looked up in the resources below.
- NLM CatalogHere you can search for any journal title and its abbreviation.
- Web of Science List of Journal Title AbbreviationsThis is an alphabetized list of the journal titles and their abbreviations.