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

Ramamurthi KS. Molecular biology. mRNA delivers the goods. Science 2011; 331: 1021–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marti K, Kerridge J. Planetary science. Nitrogen in the solar system. Science 2010; 328: 1112–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu Q-S, Pu L, Poo M-M. Repeated cocaine exposure in vivo facilitates LTP induction in midbrain dopamine neurons. Nature 2005; 437: 1027–31.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kawahara A, Nishi T, Hisano Y, Fukui H, Yamaguchi A, Mochizuki N. The sphingolipid transporter spns2 functions in migration of zebrafish myocardial precursors. Science 2009; 323: 524–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schweiker W. Dust that Breathes. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. .

An edited book

Menze B, Langs G, Tu Z, Criminisi A, editors. Medical Computer Vision. Recognition Techniques and Applications in Medical Imaging: International MICCAI Workshop, MCV 2010, Beijing, China, September 20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011. .

A chapter in an edited book

Carvalho G, Carvalho A, Rocha E, Cavalcanti A, Sampaio A. A Formal Model for Natural-Language Timed Requirements of Reactive Systems. In: Merz S, Pang J, editors. Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 16th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2014, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, November 3-5, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. ; 43–58.

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

Andrew E. Journal Reports Case Study Of Woman With Giant Third Breast [Internet]. IFLScience 2015 Nov 5 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-had-giant-third-boob-removed0/

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. The Concorde Supersonic Aircraft Trial Entry into Dulles International Airport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bottorff EA. The community college baccalaureate: A study of capital costs in Florida. 2011

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

Vecsey G. For Mets, Gloom and Doom Instead of Sunshine and Smiles. New York Times 2010; SP7.

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