This is the Vancouver style for referencing, used at the Univerity of Portsmouth within the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences and the Radiography departments.

This guide is modelled on Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (2nd edition). You may wish to consult this source directly for additional information or examples.

What if I have adapted a figure or table from the original source?


If you have adapted or borrowed data from the table, you may use the following words

‘Adapted from’ if you have adapted or changed the table.

The following shows an example for an adapted table. 

Adapted Tables

The superscript 1 in the above example is your in-text citation number, and will signpost the reader to item number 1 on your Reference list, where they can find details of the original table.