How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Anesthesiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Anesthesiology. 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

Sterner T. Economics: Higher costs of climate change. Nature. 2015;527(7577):177-178.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knutson BA, Hahn S. Yeast Rrn7 and human TAF1B are TFIIB-related RNA polymerase I general transcription factors. Science. 2011;333(6049):1637-1640.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cross CP, Cyrenne DLM, Brown GR. Sex differences in sensation-seeking: a meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2486.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vanhaereny M, d’Errico F, Stringer C, James SL, Todd JA, Mienis HK. Middle Paleolithic shell beads in Israel and Algeria. Science. 2006;312(5781):1785-1788.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sanders S. Seizures in Dogs and Cats. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Fourmigué M, Ouahab L, eds. Conducting and Magnetic Organometallic Molecular Materials. Vol 27. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Tambouret RH, Wilbur DC. Cytology of Endocervical Glandular Neoplasia. In: Wilbur DC, ed. Glandular Lesions of the Uterine Cervix: Cytopathology with Histologic Correlates. Essentials in Cytopathology. Springer; 2015:41-68.

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 Asian Journal of Anesthesiology.

Blog post

Andrew D. Curbing The Marijuana Industry’s Voracious Energy Appetite. IFLScience. July 20, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/curbing-the-marijuana-industrys-voracious-energy-appetite/

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. Agricultural Research and Development and Extension Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bankas JK. CAFE—Community and Family Enrichment: Toward Community-Based Mental Health Support for Families. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

Lee L. Divide and Conquer. New York Times. July 17, 2014:D3.

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	Asian Journal of Anesthesiology
ISSN (print)	2468-824X
Scope