remove colon from conference proceedings citation

Question

I am using latex bibliography package to generate my bibliography, but it appears to be adding a colon after "In" for conference proceedings. Is this correct? and if not is it possible to remove it?
documentclass{template}
begin{document}

cite{egelman}

bibliographystyle{vancouver}
bibliography{thesis}

end{document}

Example citation....
Egelman S, King J, Miller RC, Ragouzis N, Shehan E.  Security User Studies:  Methodologies and Best Practices.  In:  CHI ’07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems;2007. p. 2833–2836.
@inproceedings{egelman,
author = {Egelman, Serge and King, Jennifer and Miller, Robert C. and Ragouzis, Nick and Shehan, Erika},
title = {Security User Studies: Methodologies and Best Practices},
year = {2007},
booktitle = {CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
pages = {2833–2836},
numpages = {4},
}

Mico · Accepted Answer

The reason why "In: " shows up in the formatted bibliographic entry is that the vancouver bib style expects/requires the editor field for entries of type @inproceedings to be non-empty. Consider listing "Mary Beth Rosson" (the conference chair) and "David Gilmore" (the program chair) as the editors. While you're at it, do also consider providing publisher and address fields.
The following screenshot shows the result (highlighting added) of adding the editor field to the entry.

documentclass{article}
begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{thesis.bib}
@inproceedings{egelman,
  author       = "Egelman, Serge and King, Jennifer and Miller,
                  Robert C. and Ragouzis, Nick and Shehan, Erika",
  title        = "Security User Studies: Methodologies and Best
                  Practices",
  year         = 2007,
  editor       = "Mary Beth Rosson and David Gilmore",
  publisher    = "Association for Computing Machinery",
  address      = "New York, NY",
  booktitle    = "CHI~'07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in
                  Computing Systems",
  pages        = "2833--2836",
  numpages     = 4,
}
end{filecontents}
bibliographystyle{vancouver}

begin{document}
cite{egelman}
bibliography{thesis}
end{document}

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