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

Holmes David. The cancer that rises with the sun. Nature 2014;515(7527):S110-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murphy John J., Melchiorre Paolo. Organic chemistry: Light opens pathways for nickel catalysis. Nature 2015;524(7565):297–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Yi-Cai, Song Shu-Wei, Liu Wu-Ming. The confinement induced resonance in spin-orbit coupled cold atoms with Raman coupling. Sci Rep 2014;4:4992.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Polacek N., Gaynor M., Yassin A., Mankin A. S. Ribosomal peptidyl transferase can withstand mutations at the putative catalytic nucleotide. Nature 2001;411(6836):498–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandrasekaran Srinivasan. Health, Safety, and Environmental Management in Offshore and Petroleum Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Nakatsu Ryohei, Tosa Naoko, Naghdy Fazel, Wong Kok Wai, Codognet Philippe, editors. Cultural Computing: Second IFIP TC 14 Entertainment Computing Symposium, ECS 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings. vol. 333. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Yin Yong, Kaku Ikou, Tang Jiafu, Zhu Jianming. Neural Network and Self-organizing Maps. In: Kaku Ikou, Tang Jiafu, Zhu Jianming, editors. Data Mining: Concepts, Methods and Applications in Management and Engineering Design London: Springer; 2011, p. 87–100.

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

Davis Josh. The “Extinct” Yangtze River Dolphin Has Reportedly Been Spotted. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-extinct-yangtze-river-dolphin-has-reportedly-been-spotted/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2016.

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. Coast Guard Cutters: Actions Needed Now to Ensure Better Management of Parts and Supplies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Belcher Joseph T. Optimism, psychological well-being, and quality of life in females with Fibromyalgia Syndrome. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2009.

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

Pilon Mary. Running the World With Eyes Wide Open. New York Times 2012:B10.

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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