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

Smith C. A whole picture. Nature 2003; 422: 345.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gale M Jr, Foy EM. Evasion of intracellular host defence by hepatitis C virus. Nature 2005; 436: 939–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brookmeyer R, Johnson E, Bollinger R. Public health vaccination policies for containing an anthrax outbreak. Nature 2004; 432: 901–4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Baek SK, Yi IG, Park HJ, Kim BJ. Universal statistics of the knockout tournament. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson RJ, Groundwater PW, Todd A, Worsley AJ. Antibacterial Agents. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012. .

An edited book

Sharma SK. Light Scattering by Optically Soft Particles: Theory and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006. .

A chapter in an edited book

Holtzer M. The Mold/Casting Interface Phenomena. In: Górny M, Dańko R, editors. Microstructure and Properties of Ductile Iron and Compacted Graphite Iron Castings: The Effects of Mold Sand/Metal Interface Phenomena. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. ; 77–108.

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

Fang J. Researchers Grow Rat Forelimb in the Lab [Internet]. IFLScience 2015 Jun 4 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-built-rat-forelimb-tissue-lab/

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. Child Support Enforcement: Leadership Essential to Implementing Effective Automated Systems. 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

Edwards JW. The Relation Between Expressed Emotion and Adolescent Psychopathology. 2006

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

Mcbride K. When It’s O.K. to Pay for a Story. New York Times 2015; A23.

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

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