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]

Anthes E. Ageing: Live faster, die younger. Nature 2014;508:S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kahane G, Shackel N. Do abnormal responses show utilitarian bias? Nature 2008;452:E5; author reply E5-6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Montrose K, Yang Y, Krissansen GW. The tetrapeptide core of the carrier peptide Xentry is cell-penetrating: novel activatable forms of Xentry. Sci Rep 2014;4:4900.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aeschbach-Hertig W, Peeters F, Beyerle U, Kipfer R. Palaeotemperature reconstruction from noble gases in ground water taking into account equilibration with entrapped air. Nature 2000;405:1040–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, American Industrial Hygiene Association. Continuous Monitoring for Hazardous Material Releases. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Bartolo BD, Forte O, editors. Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy: Investigating Extreme Physical Conditions with Advanced Optical Techniques. vol. 168. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Marques SPC, Creus GJ. Laplace Transform Solutions. In: Creus GJ, editor. Computational Viscoelasticity, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 37–49.

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]

O`Callaghan J. SpaceX Just Released An Awesome Video Of Its Reusable Rocket Landing. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-just-released-an-awesome-video-of-its-reusable-rocket-landing/ (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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of State Automated Systems to Support Federal Welfare Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lurz JP. Using Simplified Models and Limited-Horizon Planning to React to Time-Critical Problems. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2019.

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. At Stadium, But Far From Roar Of Crowd. New York Times 2010:B13.

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