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

List names in the order they appear in the text.

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

Capitalize names 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.

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 Contributions to Books Vancouver Style

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Rules #9 for Author/Editor (required) for Contributions to Books Vancouver Style: Options for author names

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