How to format your references using the Australasian Emergency Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australasian Emergency 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]

Kinder DR. Politics and the life cycle. Science 2006;312:1905–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dickson D, Abbott A. Britain asks to join European Southern Observatory. Nature 2000;405:382–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Palazzo A, Ackerman B, Gundersen GG. Cell biology: Tubulin acetylation and cell motility. Nature 2003;421:230.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liang W, Shores MP, Bockrath M, Long JR, Park H. Kondo resonance in a single-molecule transistor. Nature 2002;417:725–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gauthier M, Andreff N, Dombre E. Intracorporeal Robotics. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

MacFarlane D, editor. Skin Cancer Management: A Practical Approach. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Intapong P, Settapat S, Kaewkamnerdpong B, Achalakul T. The Design of Modular Web-Based Collaboration. In: Kim T-H, Stoica A, Chang R-S, editors. Security-Enriched Urban Computing and Smart Grid: First International Conference, SUComS 2010, Daejeon, Korea, September 15-17, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 24–33.

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 Australasian Emergency Care.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Incredible New Project Converts Carbon Dioxide Into Stone. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/icelandic-project-converts-carbon-dioxide-to-stone-in-world-first/ (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. Air Force Stock Fund: Hydrazine Sales Consistent with the Commercial Space Launch Act. 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

[1]

Parker JS. Land Tenure in the Sugar Creek Watershed: A Contextual Analysis of Land Tenure and Social Networks, Intergenerational Farm Succession, and Conservation Use Among Farmers of Wayne County, Ohio. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2006.

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]

Rothenberg B. Dueling Frenchwomen Show Signs of a Thaw After Their Chilly Match. New York Times 2017:B8.

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	Australasian Emergency Care
ISSN (print)	2588-994X
Scope