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]

Macfadden BJ. Evolution. Fossil horses--evidence for evolution. Science 2005;307:1728–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Otto SP, Jarne P. Evolution. Haploids--hapless or happening? Science 2001;292:2441–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Suzuki G, Shimazu N, Tanaka M. A yeast prion, Mod5, promotes acquired drug resistance and cell survival under environmental stress. Science 2012;336:355–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Masnadi MS, El-Houjeiri HM, Schunack D, Li Y, Englander JG, Badahdah A, et al. Global carbon intensity of crude oil production. Science 2018;361:851–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jackson J. Political Oratory and Cartooning. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Lang J, Lin F, Wang J, editors. Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: First International Conference, KSEM 2006, Guilin, China, August 5-8, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 4092. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tomasi D, Gaiotti F, Jones GV. Climate. In: Gaiotti F, Jones GV, editors. The Power of the Terroir: the Case Study of Prosecco Wine, Basel: Springer; 2013, p. 31–54.

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]

Fang J. How Do Bats Find The Right Carnivorous Plants For Safe Roosting? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-do-bats-find-right-carnivorous-plants-safe-roosting/ (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. Telecommunications: Uneven Implementation of Wireless Enhanced 911 Raises Prospect of Piecemeal Availability for Years to Come. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rodriguez F. Grant proposal: Providing effective screening, training, and supervision for an at-risk youth mentoring program. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Hearing On Media Curbs. New York Times 2003:A6.

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