Vancouver Citation Generator

Paste DOIs and copy references in Vancouver (NLM, Citing Medicine).

Paste one or more DOIs and the tool formats them in Vancouver (NLM, Citing Medicine) using the official Citation Style Language style, with metadata from Crossref, PubMed and OpenAlex. You can switch to any other journal style on the same page.

Free, runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded.

Questions

What does a journal article look like in Vancouver style?

For the AlphaFold paper the generator gives: 1. Jumper J, Evans R, Pritzel A, Green T, Figurnov M, Ronneberger O, et al. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Nature. 2021 Jul 15;596(7873):583–9. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2

How do in-text citations work in Vancouver?

Vancouver numbers sources in the order they are first cited, shown as (1), [1] or a superscript depending on the journal. The reference list follows the same numbers.

How many authors do I list in Vancouver?

Citing Medicine lists the first 6 authors, then et al. Journal titles use the NLM abbreviation, for example Nature, N Engl J Med.

How do I cite a DOI in Vancouver?

Paste the DOI, one per line, and press Continue. The generator reads the publisher's Crossref record and formats it in Vancouver (NLM, Citing Medicine). Paste up to 50 DOIs to build a whole reference list.

Can I format for a specific journal instead?

Yes. Press Change above the results and search by journal name or abbreviation. The list covers more than 10,800 journal styles from the Citation Style Language repository used by Zotero and Mendeley.

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