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Vancouver is a numbered referencing style requiring an in-text citation within the text of your document and a related entry in a reference list at the end of your document.

Statistics and data - reference list

Online data: For data retrieved from the Internet, after the title include the phrase [dataset on the Internet] in square brackets.

Place of publication: For the place of publication - after the city, include the state code in brackets for USA/Canada or the country code for outside of the USA/Canada, e.g. St Louis (MI) or Auckland (NZ).

For more information on reference list format and style, see General information - basics of referencing.

Format

1. Author. Title [dataset on the Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication [cited date]. Available from: URL

Example

1. Pallant J. Survey.sav - survey on psychological adjustment and wellbeing [dataset on the Internet]. Sydney (AU): Allen and Unwin; 2016 [cited 2017 Nov 30]. Available from: http://spss.allenandunwin.com.s3-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/data-files.html

Format 

1. Author One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six. Title [dataset on the Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication [cited date]. Available from: URL

Example

1. Wilde C, Seber GA. Unemploy.txt [dataset on the Internet]. New York (NY): Wiley; [date unknown] [cited 2017 Nov 30]. Available from: https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~wild/data/data_from_iNZight/Wild-Seber-2000-datasets/dataindex.html

List the first six authors, followed by et al.

Format 

1. Author One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, et al. Title [dataset on the Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication [cited date]. Available from: URL

Example

1. Bhavara J, Singh A, Plimmer RA, Lawson H, Collins C, Sorrenson K, et al. Average mean temperatures in the Pacific (2002 - 2003) [dataset on the Internet]. Geneva (CH): World Health Organization; 2004 [cited 2017 Nov 30]. Available from: http://www.who.int/globalchange/summary/en/data/dataset-3455.html

Note: Group could be an organisation, association, government department, study group, etc.

List the first six authors, followed by et al.

Format

1. Name of Organisation/Group. Title [dataset on the Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication [cited date]. Available from: URL

Examples

1. UK National Health Service, College of American Pathologists. SNOMED CT [dataset on the Internet]. London (GB), SNOMED International; 1999 [2019 Jun 20]. Available from: http://www.snomed.org/

If the author is unknown, place the title in the author's position, followed by the place of publication.

Format 

1. Title [dataset on the Internet]. Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication [cited date]. Available from: URL

Examples

1. RxNorm [dataset on the Internet]. Bethesda (MD): U.S. National Library of Medicine; 2016 Apr 4 [cited 2016 Apr 18]. Available from: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/docs/rxnormfiles.html

Statistics and data - in-text citations

When using another person's ideas or words, include an Arabic numeral in brackets (consecutively numbered). If the reference is referred to again, the same number is used.

Examples

... has been recently identified (1). There is a need to be cautious with giving aspirin to children, as overdosing can lead to mortality (1).

If you are expressing ideas that have originated from more than one source, separate the numbers with commas or use a hyphen if referring to a range of numbers (references). 

... in alkyl sulphates such as sodium lauryl sulphate (3,5-6) and diethyl sulphate (7). Other compounds showing promise were those in the C12 - C14 range (3-4).