Vancouver Referencing Vancouver referencing style is one of two referencing systems normally used in medicine, the other being the author–date, or "Harvard" system. Examples of journals using Vancouver referencing are the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, and Science. References are numbered consecutively in order of appearance in the text – they are identified by Arabic numerals in parentheses (1), square brackets [1], superscript1, or a combination [1]. The number can be placed outside the text punctuation or inside the text punctuation, either is acceptable. If you are used to managing your citations and bibliography through the build-in reference function in Microsoft Word, it is best to download the Vancouver referencing style. (See instructions below on how to do this) If you don’t use the build-in function of Microsoft Word, but enter the references manually (which does take a lot more time), you can use websites like ‘Cite This For Me’ and copy – paste the references into your document. Be careful not to mix up which reference belongs to which number in the text! Here are some useful links for online reference generators: https://www.citethisforme.com/vancouver http://www.theunitutor.com/vancouver-generator http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/refs/VancouverJournalRef.html Instructions for downloading the Vancouver style for Microsoft Word Windows:

1. Download reference styles from BibWord For Vancouver style, go to: http://bibword.codeplex.com/releases/view/19772 Download the styles.zip from their website

2. Extract f i les from zip Unzip the files from the styles.zip, you now see multiple files in the folder (these are the reference styles).

3. Install the reference styles Please close Microsoft Word completely before continuing.

4. Go to the Microsoft Word folder Your Computer → Disk C: → Program Files → Microsoft Office → Office 12 → Bibliography → Style Copy the reference styles from the unzipped zip file to Style folder Mac:

1. Download reference styles from BibWord For Vancouver style, go to: http://bibword.codeplex.com/releases/view/19772 Download the styles.zip from their website

2. Extract f i les from zip Unzip the files from the styles.zip, you now see multiple files in the folder (these are the reference styles).

3. Install the reference styles Please close Microsoft word completely before continuing.

4. Go to the microsoft word folder in Finder In Finder: Applications → Microsoft office 2011 (or later version) Do you see the Microsoft Word icon?

5. Show Package Contents Right click on Microsoft Word and click Show Package content

6. Copy reference styles from zip

Copy the reference styles from the unzipped zip file to Content → Resources → Style

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you’ve installed the Vancouver style, you should see it when you open Microsoft Word. You can easily change your bibliography (that you may have created in a different style) by clicking inside the bibliography so that Word automatically selects it. In the screenshot below, the reference style is Chicago.

Then under Document Elements à References, you can pick the style. (Screenshot below)

Choose Vancouver. All in-text citations and the bibliography at the end will change automatically!