General Rules for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style

List names in the order they appear in the text.

Enter surname (family or last name) first for each author/editor.

Capitalize surnames and enter spaces within surnames as they appear in the document cited on the assumption that the author approved the form used. For example: Van Der Horn or van der Horn; De Wolf or de Wolf or DeWolf.

Convert given (first) names and middle names to initials for a maximum of two initials following each surname.

Give all authors/editors, regardless of the number.

Separate author/editor names from each other by a comma and a space.

If there are no authors, only editors, follow the last named editor with a comma and the word editor or editors; see Editor and Other Secondary Authors if there are authors and editors.

End author/editor information with a period.

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

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General Rules for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style

Specific Rules #1 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Surnames with hyphens and other punctuation in them

Specific Rules #2 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Other surname rules

Specific Rules #3 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Given names containing punctuation, a prefix, a preposition, or particle

Specific Rules #4 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Degrees, titles, and honors before or after a personal name

Specific Rules #5 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Designations of rank in a family, such as Jr and III

Specific Rules #6 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Names in non-roman alphabets (Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew) or character-based languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)

Specific Rules #7 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Non-English words for editor

Specific Rules #8 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Organizations as author/editor

Specific Rules #9 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: No author can be found

Specific Rules #10 for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style: Options for author names

Examples for Author/Editor (required) for Entire Books Vancouver Style (2015/08/12)