of the students and academics who use Vancouver.


Quirky resources


At the CILIP North East Conference in 2018, I met a colleague who now works in the Great North Museum: Hancock Library in Newcastle upon Tyne. He told me about his workplace – which contained fascinating collections of books on archaeology, biology and ornithology – and later showed me a traditional academic library, linked to Newcastle University which also contained beauti- ful 19th century illustrations of birds in its behind the scenes vaults. This library was ideal for providing interesting and quirky resources for Vancouver refer- encing examples such as Sterry’s Fungi in Britain and Northern Europe, Sick’s Birds in Brazil: a natural history or Alderton’s Crocodiles and alligators of the world. This meant that we could use descriptions about the fungus chante- relle, fairy-ring toadstools and toucans in our text which were more colourful than the examples we would have neces- sarily provided without these sources. For material exhibited in a physical place rather than published in hard copy or on the internet, the Batlic at Gateshead, the modern art gallery and famous land- mark on the Tyne next to the Millennium Bridge, along with the Laing Art Gallery in the centre of Newcastle provided the answer. We used exhibited photographs of Swan Hunter’s shipbuilding from the 1970s and a psychedelic lenticular print of a ‘keyboard warrior’ from the Baltic which we could comment upon in our examples for the Vancouver guide.


The finished article is a colourful 70 page A4 volume, A Guide to Vancouver Referencing (ISBN: 9780956603654). Vancouver referencing numbers relating to the sources we have used flow from the introductory sections explaining the conventions of the style through help sheets on the different types of informa- tion. Each example of an in-text citation with its designated numbered example is quickly followed by the end-of-text reference. In the interests of colour coding in-text citations are set in green with end-of-text references in plum. For the help sheets, rules for building your reference and explanations of how to write down the constituent biblio- graphic data used are set against a blue background. Help sheets range from books and electronic books to scientific or technical reports and pharmacopoeias. All references are compiled at the end in a reference list, as in any piece of work completed using the Vancouver style and. The volume ends with a bibliography of sources about Vancouver referencing which we read when compiling the guide.


Although the initial programmes of September 2021 INFORMATION PROFESSIONAL 45


have moved to the University of Sunder- land, the course lecturer said of A Guide to Vancouver Referencing, “It looks amazing”. Also, our merger with North- umberland College, which formed our Education Partnership North East, has meant that there are other programmes such as our BSc or foundation degree in Applied Animal Management which may also benefit from our Learning Centre’s guide. However it is used, we hope we have entered into the spirit of Monitz, Henry and Eshleman1


in doing


everything librarians can to help teaching staff (and students). We also hope that our Education Partnership North East’s work in publishing A Guide to Vancouver Referencing will go some way to sharing good practice for students and academics using this system in their writing. IP


Reference


BSc Biomedical and BSc Biopharma- ceutical sciences are no longer part of our offering at Sunderland College and


1 Moniz R, Henry J, Eshleman J. Fundamentals for the academic liaison. London: Facet Publishing; 2014.


A Guide to Vancouver Referencing (ISBN: 9780956603654) is available to order through bookshops. Vancouver Guide.


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