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VANCOUVER CITATION STYLE (UWISTA): CLARIFYING PAGE 23 OF THE UWISTA THESIS GUIDE

Clarifying the UWISTA Thesis Guide

•The Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals “a.ka. The Vancouver style” provides guidelines, but these are primarily for authors of journal articles and referencing information is mentioned towards the end of the document. Referencing style should follow the standards summarized in the NLM’s International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals: Sample References webpage and detailed in the NLM’s Citing Medicine, 2nd edition. 
•At the Faculty of Medical Sciences, The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA style) is used by the students of the School of Nursing and Psychiatry Units only.
•The New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers and Editors is not currently used at the FMS, UWISTA in the thesis-checking process.