This is the Vancouver style for referencing, used at the Univerity of Portsmouth within the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences and the Radiography departments.

This guide is modelled on Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (2nd edition). You may wish to consult this source directly for additional information or examples.

Newspaper - Printed source

If there is a named author (byline) begin the reference with the author.

If there is no byline, put the title of the item in the place of the author.

Give as much location information as possible to locate the article. Use the terminology as used by paper. This includes starting column number counting from the left.

If pagination is not continuous quote pages separated by a comma.

Reference

 

Author. Title of article. Newspaper title. (Edition if available). Date of publication: Section (if applicable): Page (column number).

 

Example

Pollitt M. New heights for proton therapy cancer treatment. Guardian. 2008 Aug 21: Technology Guardian: 6 (col. 3).

 

In text citation/Reference List

Remember this will be a running number at the first use of a reference. If the reference is re-used then repeat the number allocated.

 

Keep your style constant, either parenthesis (number) throughout, or superscript number. Do not change between the two. If your department recommends a particular style then use that.

 

The technique is used to treat eye cancers. (10)

or

The technique is used to treat eye cancers.10