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

Butts Carter T. Revisiting the foundations of network analysis. Science 2009;325(5939):414–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blaser Martin J., Kirschner Denise. The equilibria that allow bacterial persistence in human hosts. Nature 2007;449(7164):843–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Veenstra G. J., Weeks D. L., Wolffe A. P. Distinct roles for TBP and TBP-like factor in early embryonic gene transcription in Xenopus. Science 2000;290(5500):2312–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lippert Christoph, Quon Gerald, Kang Eun Yong, Kadie Carl M., Listgarten Jennifer, Heckerman David. The benefits of selecting phenotype-specific variants for applications of mixed models in genomics. Sci Rep 2013;3:1815.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wen S., Huang P. Principles of Tribology. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Luderer Bernd. Mathematical Formulas for Economists. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Castano Victor, Schagaev Igor. FT Models. In: Schagaev Igor, editor. Resilient computer system design. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 113–43.

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

Luntz Stephen. This Sarlacc-Like Creature Existed 520 Million Years Before Star Wars. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-sarlacc-like-creature-existed-520-million-years-before-star-wars-/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2016.

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. Federal Communications Commission: Competitive Bidding Procedures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cheung Man. An integrated change model in project management. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2010.

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

Kishkovsky Sophia. Moscow Talking of Arson As Fire Toll Climbs to 36. New York Times 2003:A13.

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