How to format your references using the Australian Critical Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Critical Care (AUCC). 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

Chalker Douglas L. Epigenetics: Keeping one’s sex. Nature 2014;509(7501):430–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hawker Craig J., Wooley Karen L. The convergence of synthetic organic and polymer chemistries. Science 2005;309(5738):1200–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yue Han, Lay Thorne, Koper Keith D. En échelon and orthogonal fault ruptures of the 11 April 2012 great intraplate earthquakes. Nature 2012;490(7419):245–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Klier Eliana M., Wang Hongying, Constantin Alina G., Crawford J. Douglas. Midbrain control of three-dimensional head orientation. Science 2002;295(5558):1314–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fitzgerald Robert W., Meacham Brian J. Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Nenajdenko Valentine, editor. Fluorine in Heterocyclic Chemistry Volume 1: 5-Membered Heterocycles and Macrocycles. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Wolff Manfred P. H. Banach Spaces and Linear Operators. In: Loeb Peter A., Wolff Manfred P. H., editors. Nonstandard Analysis for the Working Mathematician. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 107–62.

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 Australian Critical Care.

Blog post

Andrew Elise. We Talk To Neil deGrasse Tyson About Mars One, Being A Geek, And How To Get People Excited About Science. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/startalk-back-iflscience-catches-neil-degrasse-tyson/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2015.

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. Information Technology: Implementation of IT Reform Law and Related Initiatives Can Help Improve Acquisitions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Katukuri Jayasimha. Relationship Extraction and Link Discovery from Biomedical Literature. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2012.

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

Wagner James. With New Injury, the Mets’ Training Program Is Again Questioned. New York Times 2017:B13.

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	Australian Critical Care
Abbreviation	Aust. Crit. Care
ISSN (print)	1036-7314
Scope	Critical Care Emergency