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Several “Vancouver” citation styles have recently been renamed and, accordingly, will be listed under these new names in SmartCite<\/a>. Please see the table below for more information, including the name under which you can now find your “Vancouver” style of choice:

Note: “…” indicates a repeat of the words “NLM Style Guide (Vancouver): Citing Medicine 2nd edition (citation-sequence)”
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Old name<\/strong><\/td>New name<\/strong><\/td>What changed<\/strong><\/td>Best search keywords in SmartCite<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/thead>
Vancouver<\/strong><\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver): Citing Medicine 2nd edition (citation-sequence)<\/td>Mostly a rename\/clarification: \u201cVancouver\u201d is treated as a family<\/em> of styles; NLM\/Citing Medicine is one common concrete spec.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) \/ Citing Medicine \/ citation-sequence<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver brackets<\/strong> \/ Vancouver (number in brackets)<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (citation-sequence, brackets)<\/td>Same formatting intent; brackets is now spelled out as a variant.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + brackets<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver superscript<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (citation-sequence, superscript)<\/td>Same formatting intent; superscript is now spelled out as a variant.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + superscript<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver superscript, brackets<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (citation-sequence, superscript, brackets)<\/td>Now expressed as explicit combined variant.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + superscript + brackets<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver brackets, only year in date<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (citation-sequence, brackets, year-only dates)<\/td>Date formatting flag is now explicit in the name.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + brackets + year-only<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver superscript, only year in date<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (citation-sequence, superscript, year-only dates)<\/td>Same as above, but superscript variant.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + superscript + year-only<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver brackets, \u2026 no issue numbers<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (citation-sequence, brackets, \u2026, no issue numbers)<\/td>Issue-number suppression is now explicit in the name.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + no issue<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver superscript, \u2026 no issue numbers<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (citation-sequence, superscript, \u2026, no issue numbers)<\/td>Same, but superscript variant.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + no issue + superscript<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver brackets, no \u201cet al.\u201d<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (citation-sequence, brackets, \u2026, no \u201cet al.\u201d)<\/td>\u201cNo et al.\u201d behavior is now explicit in the name. (Exact wording may vary slightly by provider\u2019s style list.)<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + no et al<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver (citation-name)<\/strong> \/ Vancouver (author named in-text + number)<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (citation-name)<\/td>CSL distinguishes citation-name vs citation-sequence systems; name now reflects that.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + citation-name<\/td><\/tr>
Vancouver (name-year)<\/strong><\/td>\u2026 (name-year)<\/td>This is a different member of the \u201cVancouver system\u201d family.<\/td>NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) + name-year<\/td><\/tr>
Any journal\/house style that used to start with \u201cVancouver \u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/td>Often becomes \u201c\u2026 NLM Style Guide (Vancouver) \u2026\u201d inside the title<\/td>The upstream rationale is to stop presenting \u201cVancouver\u201d as a single monolithic style name.<\/td>Search journal name plus NLM or Vancouver<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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