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Reference styles
References and general style of manuscripts for the Journal of Agromedicine: Practice, Policy and Research, should follow the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (Vancouver style), http://www.icmje.org. References should be cited in text sequentially, superscript, and listed numerically in the Reference section at the end of the manuscript in order of appearance in the text – not alphabetically.

Reference samples
Samples of common references are listed below. For additional samples, including a complete section on electronic material, go to www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/uniform_requirements.html

For a journal article

Olenchock SA, Lenhart SW, Mull JC. Occupational exposure to airborne endotoxins during poultry processing. J Toxicol Environ Health. 1982 Feb;9(2):339-49.

For an entire book

Schuman SH, Caldwell ST. A user’s guide to Agromedicine: The South Carolina Model. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers; 2000.

For a chapter of a book

Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.

For a conference paper

Christensen S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza’s computational effort statistic for genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, Ryan C, Tettamanzi AG, editors. Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5; Kinsdale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. p. 182-91.

For a conference proceedings

Harnden P, Joffe JK, Jones WG, editors. Germ cell tumours V. Proceedings of the 5th Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13-15; Leeds, UK. New York: Springer; 2002.

For a technical report

Russell ML, Goth-Goldstein R, Apte MG, Fisk WJ. Method for measuring the size distribution of airborne Rhinovirus. Berkeley (CA): Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Environmental Energy Technologies Division; 2002 Jan. Report No.: LBNL49574. Contract No.: DEAC0376SF00098. Sponsored by the Department of Energy.

For a homepage/Web site

Cancer-Pain.org [homepage on the Internet]. New York: Association of Cancer Online Resources, Inc.; c2000-01 [updated 2002 May 16; cited 2002 Jul 9]. Available from: http://www.cancer-pain.org/.