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When Vancouver style was introduced, there was some discussion about it being the same as NLM
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4001/?Focus=17323
there was a claim that it isn't, but really it is:
Vancouver Style
"follows rules established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors <http://www.icmje.org/>. It is also known as: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals."
And in the ICMJE guidelines it says:
http://www.icmje.org/urm_full.pdf
<blockquote> Authors should consult NLM’s Citing Medicine for information on its
recommended formats for a variety of reference types. Au-
thors may also consult sample references, a list of examples
extracted from or based on Citing Medicine for easy use by
the ICMJE audience; </blockquote>
The styles are identical. Sometimes the fact that NLM allows for a version with month and date and issue number and one without leads to confusion - (see the thread above) but that distinction has nothing to do with Vancouver or not.
So I think we should:
1) Treat Vancouver as a dependent style of NLM
2) Create a new NLM style without issue numbers and months/date for journal publications.
Currently, the styles are almost identical and the differences that do exist don't seem justified by any style-guide.
But before starting such an undertaking with important styles I wanted to solicit some opinions.
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/4001/?Focus=17323
there was a claim that it isn't, but really it is:
Vancouver Style
"follows rules established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors <http://www.icmje.org/>. It is also known as: Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals."
And in the ICMJE guidelines it says:
http://www.icmje.org/urm_full.pdf
<blockquote> Authors should consult NLM’s Citing Medicine for information on its
recommended formats for a variety of reference types. Au-
thors may also consult sample references, a list of examples
extracted from or based on Citing Medicine for easy use by
the ICMJE audience; </blockquote>
The styles are identical. Sometimes the fact that NLM allows for a version with month and date and issue number and one without leads to confusion - (see the thread above) but that distinction has nothing to do with Vancouver or not.
So I think we should:
1) Treat Vancouver as a dependent style of NLM
2) Create a new NLM style without issue numbers and months/date for journal publications.
Currently, the styles are almost identical and the differences that do exist don't seem justified by any style-guide.
But before starting such an undertaking with important styles I wanted to solicit some opinions.
I hope that this comment is useful.
1. Issues and month-day
2. Issue and no month-day
3. Neither issue nor month-day
that's not so bad - unfortunately, I'd guess that each one of those exists as parenthesis, bracket and superscript - which brings us up to 9 already... oh well.