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]

Gershon D. Are mega-mergers good medicine for the pharmaceutical industry? Nature 2000;405:257–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Barbash S, Soreq H. Statistically invalid classification of high throughput gene expression data. Sci Rep 2013;3:1102.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bania TM, Rood RT, Balser DS. The cosmological density of baryons from observations of 3He+ in the Milky Way. Nature 2002;415:54–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Uchida K, Takahashi S, Harii K, Ieda J, Koshibae W, Ando K, et al. Observation of the spin Seebeck effect. Nature 2008;455:778–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Theodore L, Kunz RG. Nanotechnology: Environmental Implications and Solutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Liu J, Alippi C, Bouchon-Meunier B, Greenwood GW, Abbass HA, editors. Advances in Computational Intelligence: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012. Plenary/Invited Lectures. vol. 7311. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Alvim MS, Andrés ME, Palamidessi C, van Rossum P. Safe Equivalences for Security Properties. In: Calude CS, Sassone V, editors. Theoretical Computer Science: 6th IFIP TC 1/WG 2.2 International Conference, TCS 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 55–70.

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]

Andrew E. Assembly Of The World’s Largest Radio Telescope Has Begun! IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/assembly-worlds-largest-radio-telescope-has-begun/ (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. Environmental Protection: Solving NASA’s Current Problems Requires Agencywide Emphasis. 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]

McCallum-Bonar C. Black Ashkenaz And the Almost Promised Land: Yiddish Literature and the Harlem Renaissance. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 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]

Dinardo K. An Orangutan Expert Advises Visiting Now. New York Times 2016:TR2.

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