Vancouver style is recommended by The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR.Medical University. Otherwise you have to follow the standard style recommended by the journals in which you want to publish your articles.

Hi, I think it depends where you want to publish your manuscript. Have a look at the website of the journal(s). Cheers, Nadine

http://www.johnsquirelibrary.org.uk/guides/referencing.htm

Hi,

I think to give references for our article and research work is must. You can also write Endnote for your research work by enclosing evidences thereof. These are two standard methods in research work.

Dear Merish .S i have added an attachment for your reference.

Dear Merish .S i have added an attachment for your reference. Both are standard references. It is depends upon the individual Publications guidelines.

I think your real question is "What is the standard referencing style for Medicine?" Go here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7282/

to read "Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers [Internet]. 2nd edition."

Vancouver style is recommended by The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR.Medical University. Otherwise you have to follow the standard style recommended by the journals in which you want to publish your articles.

Generally there are two reference style: the author-publication year system, and the sequence coding system. The former is to add the cited authors and publication year behind the citation, and the latter is to add a number behind the citation and the coding number is in sequence from the beginning to the end.

Many English journals use the author-publication year system, but each journal may habe some subtle difference in the citation style and in the reference indexing style. So the authors need to read the Guides to Authors when preparing manuscript for submission to the object journal.

In this era of internet and things being so fast, the most followed referencing style for publishing in a medical journal is is Vancouver style. Many universities are following the Harvard style but quite a number of universities have started following Vancouver style for the theses submitted to them.

Vancouver style is 'writer friendly' while Harvard style is 'Reader/supervisor friendly'. Probably because of this, the writer/student likes Vancouver style and the supervisor/checker favors Harvard style. The two styles are the most favorite though there are a number of referencing styles available and widely used for scientific writing.

Everything has to do with what field you are publishing in and the submission requirement of the journals that you want to publish in. Usually all of this information is listed in the submission guidelines so you won't need to wonder which one to use. So I would not say there is any one standard because all of these are standards. It all depends on what you are doing and where you are doing it.

If you use Endnote, there are over 700 referencing styles. This is not to say that you must be confused as to which one to choose. SOme universities recommend one style of reference to be used as astandard, while others will recommend another. As to conferences and journals, each of them tendsto impose a particular publication format with a particular style of referencing.

As per journal format, since all have different ways - though we must have a common and only 1 standard format

Ian and Kuldeep set it out well - referencing style depends on discipline and journal.

And it may even depend on the whims of referees, lecturers and supervisors!

Ian said it very well. There is no standard. it depends on journals. Actually there is no choice we can make. Journals ask the authors to write in one of styles.

Referencing style purely depends on discipline and journal.

Referencing style purely depends on discipline and journal. but which is easy for Researcher and for write and understand also-

But easy style is to write end of the research article.

Dr. Vedashree

I agree with Ruchi, there must be a standard reference style. I understand, it vary from discipline to discipline. But, at least there should be some consistency within a subject area.

However, i am also very much confused as to what is the need for so many reference styles. Can anyone here kindly explain this to me. I would be highly thankful.

Dear Colleagues,

A wish for a standard reference is very difficult to fulfill. The various disciplines developed differing standards not because they wanted to reinvent the wheel or because they are completely ignorant (though sometimes this may apply) but because they have very different needs.

The uniform referencing would be advantageous even for publishers, but to create such a format, however, you would need a very large panel discussion including very many disciplines.

I had the opportunity to publish in various fields and to edit some volumes and therefore I have some understanding for the different formats.

I have problems to figure out how to make the format uniform if I consider contributions of e.g., veterinary science, geochemistry, cartography, geodesy, particle physics (300+ authors!), astronomy, ecology, and, especially geography, philosophy, economy, history, linguistics, etc.

For journal papers it would be relatively easy to create some uniform style but even in this case you may compare the AGU-style citations and other more conventional ones. How to make that uniform? (Database managers suffer enough to store all that, believe me.)

But the real thing is to consider the various abstract volumes, proceedings, books, book series, maps, databank citations (e.g., SRTM, NUVEL, astronomy data), guidelines, reports (published by organizations like IEEE, UNO, IPCC), official standards, etc.

I have written a longer contribution about this at RG a year ago in this thread:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_cant_all_the_journals_will_have_one_forum_and_have_one_common_format_for_references (is there a better way to cite that here at RG?)

And by the way, a much simpler, but strongly related problem: is it already possible to write my name (having only two diacriticals that exist in Western European alphabets) correctly in all journals? (My answer is: unfortunately, not.)

Other authors having more complicated diacriticals (Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, etc.) in their names suffer much more. (Not to mention languages that need transliteration.) Even their papers are sometimes hard to be matched for finding citations.

Of course, I also endorse standards, but only if they do not restrict (or make impossible) to mirror the real life and research. I would happily participate in the development of such common formats that fulfill the requirements. (I am sure, I am not aware of all you may have.)

I appreciate your time spent on reading, thank you and kind regards, Balázs

There are many different ways of citing resources from your research. The citation style sometimes depends on the academic discipline involved. For example:

•APA (American Psychological Association) is used by Education, Psychology, and Sciences

•MLA (Modern Language Association) style is used by the Humanities

•Chicago/Turabian style is generally used by Business, History, and the Fine Arts

http://pitt.libguides.com/citationhelp

this is dependent on the template of the journal being used , but the author should used unique style to all references and citations in the paper, in the following some of these templates:

author(s) name(s),"paper title", "journal or conference title, Vol. ( ), No.( ), pp.(from-to ),year.

or

author(s) name(s),"paper title", "journal or conference title, ( ), ( ), (from-to ),year.

or

author(s) name(s),(year),"paper title", "journal or conference title, Vol. ( ), No.( ), pp.(from-to ).

and so on .

you should select one style only from the above mentioned styles in writing your references.

I agree with Israa, must be consistent with one style e.g Vancouver or Harvard and many comment ask that its depends on dicipline than journal template. If medical studies write in bussiness journal, we can ask the reviewer / editor to stick on V than in APA or Harvard. Moreover if the socialization is under the responsibility of medical doctors. Goal make it simple for the next reference citation