Vancouver style is the most commonly used citation style in medicine. Please confirm the citation style with your professor for assignments. If you are submitting an article to a journal, please check the journal requirements as some journals have their own citation style.
Please see the Citation Style Guide information on Vancouver Style
Other Vancouver Style Resources
Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 2nd ed. 2007, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Vancouver Style Guide, from the Health Science Information Consortium (University of Toronto).
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