What is Vancouver Referencing Style?

The Vancouver Style was developed by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). It is the preferred referencing style for most faculty of medicine, dentistry and health sciences courses. This style is so named as it is based on the work of a group, first meeting held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1978. It is by adopted by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and well over 1,000 other medical journals, as part of their Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Bio-metric Journals.  Vancouver is a “numbered’ style, i.e., each reference you refer to in the content of your document identified by consecutive number. Even if the author’s name is mentioned in the text, using a number is still necessary along with the detailed description of each reference in a number list at the end.  

How to Create Vancouver Citation?

As a medical or scientific author, documents should be complied with a particular style before publication, to make things as clear as possible for the reader. Vancouver citation style have several variations and different academic institutions follows different styles so it is important to find out which version is expected from the author’s institution. In Vancouver citation, references should be numbered consecutively in order they are first mentioned in the text. Once a source has been cited, the same number is used in all subsequent references. If one source at a time is being cited, each reference number should be listed separately with a comma or dash between each reference. It is not necessary to add page number references when citing within the text of the assignment or essay when using Vancouver style. No distinction is made between the electronic and print references when citing within the text. There are particular formats of Vancouver style for books, journals, articles, etc., in all of them, the references or bibliography should be listed at the end of the work. It should be listed in alphabetical order by author and laid out in the same way as items in the reference list.  Vancouver Citation Generator is easily available for users on the internet. It automatically create and format the citations in the Vancouver Referencing Style. There are many websites User’s guide are also available that explains the user how to cite references in Vancouver Style simply by entering the details of the source and the generator will generate the citation in just few seconds.