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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Anaesthesiologica Taiwanica (AAT). 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

Katsnelson Alla. Cosmetics: Molecular beauty. Nature 2015;526(7572):S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lambert J. David, Nagy Lisa M. Asymmetric inheritance of centrosomally localized mRNAs during embryonic cleavages. Nature 2002;420(6916):682–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ni Sidao, Kanamori Hiroo, Helmberger Don. Seismology: energy radiation from the Sumatra earthquake. Nature 2005;434(7033):582.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu Wen, Min Xiaolei, Chen Xu, Zhu Yongsheng, Zhou Pingwei, Cui Shaobo, et al. Ag-SiO₂-Er₂O₃ nanocomposites: highly effective upconversion luminescence at high power excitation and high temperature. Sci Rep 2014;4:5087.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Millon Theodore, Grossman Seth. Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Benneworth Paul, editor. University Engagement With Socially Excluded Communities. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Gauyacq J. P., Borisov A. G. Dynamics of Resonant Electron Transfer in the Interaction Between an Atom and a Metallic Surface. In: Micha David A., Burghardt Irene, editors. Quantum Dynamics of Complex Molecular Systems Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 87–109.

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 Taiwanica.

Blog post

Andrew Elise. Modified HIV Cures Rare Genetic Disorder In Children. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/modified-hiv-cures-rare-genetic-disorder-children/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2015.

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. Railroad Safety: Accident Trends and FRA Safety Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Siczek Megan Margaret. Negotiating Socioacademic Space: The Lived Experience of International Second-Language Students in a Mainstream First-year Writing Course. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2014.

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

Williams John. Opening Up About a Closed World. New York Times 2017:C6.

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 Taiwanica
Abbreviation	Acta Anaesthesiol. Taiwan
ISSN (print)	1875-4597
ISSN (online)	1875-452X
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