What is the Vancouver referencing style?
The Vancouver referencing system is commonly used in biomedical academic publications instead of the Harvard (name:date) system. In the text, references are assigned superscript numbers in their order of citation in the text. A references number of first citation in the text is retained and used subsequently wherever the reference is cited in the text, and in the reference list. So the first reference in the text is 1, the second new reference is 2 etc. The reference list at the end of the document is in numerical (NOT alphabetical) order, and so full detail of the references is given in the order of their citation in the text. For example, the first reference to be cited in the text is first in the reference list, the second is second etc.
