Controversies on space bar, comma, semicolon, and fullstop.

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Below mentioned is a standard example taken from ICMJE.ORG{© 2009 International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. .}

The example mentioned below is reference number-3 from the site mentioned below. It has been copied as such and I presume that icmje.org is the most suitable site to follow the Vancouver style of references. However journals that follow URM are also listed in this site. Any journal out of this might have some amended rules for following the Vancouver style of referencing which one must abide by when sending articles to that particular journal.

Please follow the link:

http://www.icmje.org/references_1print.html

Example from icmje.org----

Flanagin A, Fontanarosa PB, DeAngelis CD. Authorship for research groups. JAMA. 2002;288:3166-8.

Please note:

1. Here in this reference we can clearly see that each author's name has a space after the coma.

2. The article title has a space after the full stop.

3. The journal abbreviation has a space before and after it (.spaceJAMA.space)

4. But---- year;vol number:page number---do not have any space in between

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