How to format your references using the Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology (RCAE). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Phillips D. Obituary: George Porter (1920-2002). Nature. 2002;419(6907):578.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson EA., Janssens IA. Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change. Nature. 2006;440(7081):165–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Culler SJ., Hoff KG., Smolke CD. Reprogramming cellular behavior with RNA controllers responsive to endogenous proteins. Science. 2010;330(6008):1251–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Thompson JB., Kindt JH., Drake B., Hansma HG., Morse DE., Hansma PK. Bone indentation recovery time correlates with bond reforming time. Nature. 2001;414(6865):773–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raghavan V. Combustion Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Schofield N., Caballero G. The Political Economy of Governance: Institutions, Political Performance and Elections. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Date Y. The Vagus Nerve and Ghrelin Function. In: Portelli J, Smolders I, editors. Central Functions of the Ghrelin Receptor. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 53–61.

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 Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Researchers Develop Solar Cells From Old Car Batteries. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/researchers-develop-solar-cells-old-car-batteries/. 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

Government Accountability Office. Highway Diesel Fuel Prices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gogni de Tolentino MG. Challenges and successes of monolingual Spanish-speaking foster parents. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Vecsey G. From the Men, A Few Highlights After the Deluge. New York Times. 2011:SP9.

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	Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology
Abbreviation	Colomb. J. Anesthesiol.
ISSN (print)	2256-2087
Scope