How to format your references using the Burns citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Burns. 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

[1]

Sarewitz D. The voice of science: let’s agree to disagree. Nature 2011;478:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bada JL, Lazcano A. Perceptions of science. Prebiotic soup--revisiting the Miller experiment. Science 2003;300:745–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ho VM, Lee J-A, Martin KC. The cell biology of synaptic plasticity. Science 2011;334:623–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cook B, Hardy RW, McConnaughey WB, Zuker CS. Preserving cell shape under environmental stress. Nature 2008;452:361–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Borisenko VE, Ossicini S. What is What in the Nanoworld. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Kienzle J, editor. Models in Software Engineering: Workshops and Symposia at MODELS 2011, Wellington, New Zealand, October 16-21, 2011, Reports and Revised Selected Papers. vol. 7167. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Laslier J-F. Lessons from In Situ Experiments during French Elections. In: Dolez B, Grofman B, Laurent A, editors. In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform: French Presidential Elections, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 91–104.

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 Burns.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. New Zealand Birds May Be Singing Songs Not Heard In The UK For Over 100 Years. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-zealand-birds-may-be-singing-songs-not-heard-in-the-uk-for-over-100-years/ (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. Student Loans: Characteristics of Defaulted Borrowers in the Stafford Student Loan Program. 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]

Valeika SR. The epidemiology of varicella under a two -dose vaccination strategy: Results of a mathematical transmission model with a novel strategy of sensitivity analysis. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2008.

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]

Eligon J. Perseverance Pays for Ward, a New Champion and, Maybe, the Sport’s Next Big Star. New York Times 2016:D3.

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	Burns
Abbreviation	Burns
ISSN (print)	0305-4179
Scope	General Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Emergency Medicine Surgery