How to format your references using the Annals of Intensive Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Intensive Care. 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

1. Sassone-Corsi P. Unique chromatin remodeling and transcriptional regulation in spermatogenesis. Science. 2002;296:2176–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Peng L, Mortensen NA. Plasmonic-cavity model for radiating nano-rod antennas. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3825.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhu Z, Gauthier DJ, Boyd RW. Stored light in an optical fiber via stimulated Brillouin scattering. Science. 2007;318:1748–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Murakami M, Ohte N, Suzuki T, Ishii N, Igarashi Y, Tanoi K. Biological proliferation of cesium-137 through the detrital food chain in a forest ecosystem in Japan. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Samara T. ERP and Information Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Castellanos M, Dayal U, Miller RJ, editors. Enabling Real-Time Business Intelligence: Third International Workshop, BIRTE 2009, Held at the 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2009, Lyon, France, August 24, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Crespo JM, Betarte G, Luna C. A Framework for the Analysis of Access Control Models for Interactive Mobile Devices. In: Berardi S, Damiani F, de’Liguoro U, editors. Types for Proofs and Programs: International Conference, TYPES 2008 Torino, Italy, March 26-29, 2008 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 49–63.

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 Annals of Intensive Care.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Solar Impulse Completes Record-Breaking Flight to Hawaii [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/solar-impulse-completes-record-breaking-flight-hawaii/

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. Issues and Problems Relating to United States-Japan Trade. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Oct. Report No.: 110554.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gade S. Design and Implementation of Hybrid Hyperchaotic Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Billard M. Scrooge Has a Sense of Humor. New York Times. 2013 Dec 19;E13.

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	Annals of Intensive Care
Abbreviation	Ann. Intensive Care
ISSN (online)	2110-5820
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

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