Vancouver Citation Style

«The Vancouver Style is the citation style used by most biomedical journals and many scientific journals. It came out of a meeting of medical journal editors in 1978, held in Vancouver, BC, and is maintained by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). It is also known as the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. For the complete guide to the Vancouver Style, please consult this online book: Citing Medicine, 2nd ed. This book provides very detailed examples for almost any type and variation of resource: conference papers, wikis, journal articles with a supplement, etc. Remember that the Dental Hygiene department uses a modified version of Vancouver Style.»
(Vancouver Community College Library, Vancouver Style > VCC Guide to Vancouver Style [pdf])

«Three major sources are utilized in compiling Citing Medicine: the MEDLARS Indexing Manual of the National Library of Medicine (NLM); pertinent NISO standards, primarily ANSI/NISO Z39.29-2005 Bibliographic References (http://www.niso.org/); and relevant standards from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), primarily ISO 690 Documentation - Bibliographic References (http://www.iso.org/).

»In applying the rules presented by these three sources, the MEDLARS Indexing Manual is given preference. The NLM format as shown in this publication follows NISO in principle, but certain deviations are made, primarily in the interest of saving labor in producing MEDLINE/PubMed. Those familiar with the Manual are aware that its scope is limited to journal articles. However, if a precedent was established by the Manual, as for example with pagination and dates, this Citing Medicine Citing Medicine Citing Medicine Citing Medicine precedent is carried over into other types of bibliographic material. If no NLM precedent is available, then the NISO and ISO standards are followed.

»Users should note that bibliography is not the same as cataloging. The references found in this publication will therefore not agree with the records found in the Library's LocatorPlus and NLM Catalog databases.»
(Citing Medicine, 2nd edition. The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers)