How to format your references using the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Varis O. Resources: Curb vast water use in central Asia. Nature 2014; 514: 27–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trumbore SE, Gaudinski JB. Atmospheric science. The secret lives of roots. Science 2003; 302: 1344–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang PC, Keleshian AM, Sachs F. Voltage-induced membrane movement. Nature 2001; 413: 428–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chiara CJ, Carroll JJ, Carpenter MP, et al. Isomer depletion as experimental evidence of nuclear excitation by electron capture. Nature 2018; 554: 216–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fitschen K. Building Reliable Trading Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

Alberts G, Oldenziel R, eds. Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes. London: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang X, Yang J. Dominance-based Rough Sets in “*” Incomplete Information System. In: Yang J, ed. Incomplete Information System and Rough Set Theory: Models and Attribute Reductions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.

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 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew D. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them: A History Of Monsters, From Werewolves To Hippogriffs. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them-a-history-of-monsters-from-werewolves-to-hippogriffs/ (accessed 30 Oct 2018).

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. Space Station: NASA’s Search for Design, Cost, and Schedule Stability Continues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garishe SS. Protocol for file sharing in mobile ad hoc networks. 2017.

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

Poniewozik J. Close Encounters of the Human Kind. New York Times 23 Jul 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	Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
ISSN (print)	1472-0299
Scope