Examples of bibliographic references in Vancouver Style

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Published: 30 June 2021

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Book

Book with one author

McNulty JG. Interventional radiology of the gallbladder: percutaneous cholecystostomy. Berlin: Springer-Verlag; 1990. 65 p.

Book with multiple authors

Kern MJ, Sorajja P, Lim M. The cardiac catheterization handbook. 6th ed. Philadelphia (PA): Elsevier; 2016. 512 p.

Book without a credited author (with an editor, etc.)

Massry GG, Murphy MR, Azizzadeh B, editors. Master techniques in blepharoplasty and periorbital rejuvenation. New York (NY): Springer; 2011. 342 p.

Book available online

Bielefeldt H, Frewer A, Klotz S, Schmidhuber M, editors. Healthcare as a human rights issue: normative profile, conflicts and implementation [Internet]. Bielefeld (Germany): transcript-Verlag; 2018 [cited 2021 Jan 11]. 427 p. Available from: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1fxf7w

Volume (part of a multivolume edition)

Berenstein A, Lasjaunias P, Brugge KG. Surgical neuroangiography. 2nd ed. Vol. 2, Clinical and endovascular treatment aspects in adults. Berlin: Springer-Verlag; 2004. 1287 p.

Chapter in an edited book

Nishimura Y, Kumagai-Takei N, Lee S, Matsuzaki H, Yoshiotme K, Otsuki T. A new method to determine natural killer cell activity without target cells. In: Aribi M, editor. Natural killer cells [Internet]. Rijeka (Croatia): InTech; 2017 [cited 2021 Jun 30]. p. 161-77. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.71912

Article (publication) in a periodical

Journal article

Nulu S, Bukhman G, Kwan GF. Rheumatic heart disease. Cardiol Clin [Internet]. 2017 Feb [cited 2021 Jun 30];35(1):165-80. Available from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0733865116300674?via%3Dihub doi: 10.1016/j.ccl.2016.08.006

Newspaper article

Darmiento L. Charity off the charts amid pandemic. Los Angeles Times. 2020 Apr 20;Business:A7 (col. 1).

Website (webpage)

St Vincent's Hospital Sydney [Internet]. Sydney (Australia): St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, c2021 [cited 2021 Jun 30]. Available from: https://www.svhs.org.au/.

Video (online)

St John Ambulance. YouTube [Internet]. [Video], How to treat fever - First aid training - St John Ambulance; 2015 Jan 8 [cited 2021 Jun 30]; [1 min., 23 sec.]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faLkXDXrhnM

Social media post

NIHR Research. Twitter [Internet]. In July we shared a blog stressing the importance of improving public involvement in social care research, after the publication [Tweet]; 2021 Dec 16 [cited 2021 Dec 18]. Available from: https://twitter.com/NIHRresearch/status/1471408513935097856

Dissertation, thesis

Kemp S. The role of illness representations in the process of coping and psychosocial adjustment among adults with epilepsy [Doctoral thesis on the Internet]. [Leeds (United Kingdom)]: University of Leeds; 1996 [cited 2021 Jun 30]. 139 p. Available from: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/676/.

Conference materials

Conference paper

Li Y, Rahbar R, Dupont PE. Design of a robotic balloon-catheter endoscope for sinus procedures. In: Deligianni F, Dagnino G, Yang GZ, editors. Proceedings of the 12th Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2019 [Internet]; 2019 Jun 23-26; London. London: Imperial College London, The Hamlyn Centre; 2019 [cited 2021 Jun 30]. p. 9-10. Available from: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/hamlyn-centre/public/Proceedings_HSMR19.pdf

Law, act

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Report

Gabler J, Raabe T, Röhrl K, von Gaudecker HM. The effectiveness of strategies to contain Sars-Cov-2: testing, vaccinations, and npis [Internet]. Bonn (Germany): IZA – Institute of Labor Economics; 2021 Jun [cited 2021 Jun 30]. 52 p. (IZA DP; no. 14510). Available from: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/14510/the-effectiveness-of-strategies-to-contain-sars-cov-2-testing-vaccinations-and-npis

Preprint

Poehler M, Gibson L, Lustig A, Moreland NJ, McGregor R, James A. Estimating decay curves of neutralising antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 infection [Internet]. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2021 [cited 2021 Jun 29]: 14 p. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.13.21258857

Patent

Simon BJ, Errico JP, Raffle JT, inventors; Electrocore, Inc., assignee. Methods and devices for treating primary headache [Internet]. United States patent US 10,384,061 B2. 2019 Aug 20 [cited 2021 Jun 29]. [41 p.]. Available from: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10384061B2

Standard

British Standards Institution. BS EN ISO 13485:2016. Sterilization of health care products. Biological indicators. Guidance for the selection, use and interpretation of results. London: British Standards Publications; 2016. 68 p.

Archival document

Truman HS. Letter to: Ben Turoff [Internet]. 1949 Apr 12 [cited 2021 Jun 29]. Located at: John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, MA; President's Secretary's Files (Truman Administration), 1945 - 1960, Series: Personal Files, 1945 - 1953, National Archives Identifier: 201512. Available from: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/201512