How to format your references using the Anaesthesia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Anaesthesia. 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

1. Reed JC. Cancer. Priming cancer cells for death. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2011; 334: 1075–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jackson SP, Bartek J. The DNA-damage response in human biology and disease. Nature 2009; 461: 1071–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Srisonphan S, Kim M, Kim HK. Space charge neutralization by electron-transparent suspended graphene. Scientific reports 2014; 4: 3764.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Novoselov KS, Geim AK, Morozov SV et al. Electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2004; 306: 666–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Borisenko VE, Ossicini S. What Is What in the Nanoworld. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012.

An edited book

1. Hsu C-H, Yang LT, Park JH, Yeo S-S, eds. Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 10th International Conference, ICA3PP 2010, Busan, Korea, May 21-23, 2010. Workshops, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Saintillan D. Kinetic Models for Biologically Active Suspensions. In: Childress S, Hosoi A, Schultz WW, Wang J, eds. Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding. New York, NY: Springer, 2012: 53–71.

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.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Why Arctic Melting Will Be Erratic In The Short Term. IFLScience, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-arctic-melting-will-be-erratic-short-term/ (accessed October 30, 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

1. Government Accountability Office. HHS-Supported Research on Violence Prevention. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Carrier TH. Using Grunig’s Situational Theory for Analysis of Frames in Human Trafficking Awareness Organizations’ YouTube Videos. 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

1. Vecsey G. Outlook That Soccer Can Do Without. New York Times, 2010.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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
Abbreviation	Anaesthesia
ISSN (print)	0003-2409
ISSN (online)	1365-2044
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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