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

Miralda-Escudé J. The Dark Age of the universe. Science. 2003;300(5627):1904–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ransohoff RM., Cardona AE. The myeloid cells of the central nervous system parenchyma. Nature. 2010;468(7321):253–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mempel TR., Henrickson SE., Von Andrian UH. T-cell priming by dendritic cells in lymph nodes occurs in three distinct phases. Nature. 2004;427(6970):154–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen S., Ito T., Asahara A., Yoshita M., Liu W., Zhang J., et al. Spectral dynamics of picosecond gain-switched pulses from nitride-based vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Butler KC. Multinational Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Elleithy K. Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Sowa S., Tsinas L., Gabriel R. BORIS –Business ORiented management of Information Security. In: Johnson ME, editor. Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009. p. 81–97.

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

Luntz S. Titan’s Atmosphere May Have Formed Before Saturn. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/titans-atmosphere-may-have-formed-saturn/. 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. Screening Partnership Program: TSA Should Issue More Guidance to Airports and Monitor Private versus Federal Screener Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fouts J. A mental health outreach program for adolescent gang members and at-risk youth: A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2014.

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

Rutenberg J. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Ben Carson? New York Times. 2015:MM44.

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

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