How to format your references using the British Journal of Anaesthesia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA). 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

Gewin V. Taking a risk in start-ups. Nature 2004; 429: 484–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Coe FL, Asplin JR. Medicine. Stopping the stones. Science 2010; 330: 325–6

A journal article with 3 authors

Linnerooth-Bayer J, Mechler R, Pflug G. Refocusing disaster aid. Science 2005; 309: 1044–6

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fujita Y, Furushima R, Ohno H, Sagawa F, Inoue T. Cell-surface receptor control that depends on the size of a synthetic equilateral-triangular RNA-protein complex. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 6422

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walke B, Seidenberg R, Althoff MP. UMTS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Ali Babar M, Vierimaa M, Oivo M, editors. Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 11th International Conference, PROFES 2010, Limerick, Ireland, June 21-23, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Masciullo V, Di Cesare C, Paris I. Advances in Ovarian Cancer and Ongoing Clinical Trials. In: Giordano A, Macaluso M, editors. Gynecological Cancers: Genetic and Epigenetic Targets and Drug Development Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 65–77

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 British Journal of Anaesthesia.

Blog post

Andrew E. Bizarre Deformed ‘Unicorn’ Found In Slovenia [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-unicorn-deer-found-slovenia/

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. Research and Development: Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center’s Process for Funding Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Sep Report No.: AIMD-99-277R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edwards JW. The Relation Between Expressed Emotion and Adolescent Psychopathology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: 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

Feeney K. Home Is Where The Food Is Grown. New York Times 2008; NJ1

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	British Journal of Anaesthesia
Abbreviation	Br. J. Anaesth.
ISSN (print)	0007-0912
ISSN (online)	1471-6771
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine