Quick Guide to Referencing: Vancouver

Vancouver is a 'numbered' referencing style commonly used in the sciences and medicine. 

References include:

• citations:
  • used to reference someone else's work within your writing
  • are indicated by the use of a number (see our examples - link below)
• a reference list:
  • sequentially organised by a numbered list at the end of a document
  • provides full details of the corrsponding in-text reference

It follows rules established by the International committee of Medical Journal Editors, now maintained by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is also known as Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts submitted to Biomedical Journals.