  This review summarises the main results on the production of single vector
bosons in the Standard Model, both inclusively and in association with light
and heavy flavour jets, at the Large Hadron Collider in proton-proton
collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV. The general purpose detectors
at this collider, ATLAS and CMS, each recorded an integrated luminosity of
$\approx 40\,{\rm pb^{-1}}$ and $5\,{\rm fb^{-1}}$ in the years 2010 and 2011,
respectively. The corresponding data offer the unique possibility to precisely
study the properties of the production of heavy vector bosons in a new energy
regime. The accurate understanding of the Standard Model is not only crucial
for searches of unknown particles and phenomena but also to test predictions of
perturbative Quantum-Chromo-Dynamics calculations and for precision
measurements of observables in the electroweak sector. Results from a variety
of measurements in which single W or Z bosons are identified are reviewed.
Special emphasis in this review is given to interpretations of the experimental
results in the context of state-of-the-art predictions.
