How to format your references using the Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Miesenböck G. The optogenetic catechism. Science 2009; 326: 395–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kinnamon SC, Reynolds SD. Cell biology. Using taste to clear the air(ways). Science 2009; 325: 1081–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weber W, Riesen S, Siegmann HC. Magnetization precession by hot spin injection. Science 2001; 291: 1015–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Madec R, Devincre B, Kubin L, Hoc T, Rodney D. The role of collinear interaction in dislocation-induced hardening. Science 2003; 301: 1879–82.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Duchon C, Hale R. Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012. .

An edited book

Pokorski M, editor. Respiratory Contagion. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. .

A chapter in an edited book

van Donk DP, van der Vaart T. A Critical Review of Surveys in Supply Chain Integration Research. In: Pawar KS, Rogers H, Potter A, Naim M, editors. Developments in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Past, Present and Future. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. ; 38–51.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica.

Blog post

Davis J. New Brightly Colored Lizard Named After David Attenborough [Internet]. IFLScience 2015 Aug 5 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-brightly-colored-lizard-named-after-david-attenborough/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Issues Related to Determining How Best to Finance FAA. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bhatnagar A. Buckling and weight optimization for non-coupled antisymmetric laminates. 2012

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Fiske IH. WILLIAM MORRIS. New York Times 1907; REVIEW OF BOOKSBR169.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
Abbreviation	Acta Anaesthesiol. Scand.
ISSN (print)	0001-5172
ISSN (online)	1399-6576
Scope	General Medicine Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine