How to format your references using the Current Anesthesiology Reports citation style

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

1. Wilmut I. Retrospective. Keith Campbell (1954-2012). Science. 2012;338:1553.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Leontis NB, Westhof E. Chemistry. Self-assembled RNA nanostructures. Science. 2014;345:732–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Burrone J, O’Byrne M, Murthy VN. Multiple forms of synaptic plasticity triggered by selective suppression of activity in individual neurons. Nature. 2002;420:414–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Verma R, Aravind L, Oania R, McDonald WH, Yates JR 3rd, Koonin EV, et al. Role of Rpn11 metalloprotease in deubiquitination and degradation by the 26S proteasome. Science. 2002;298:611–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Alexandridis AK, Zapranis AD. Wavelet Neural Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Sanders B, Thomas YF, Griffin Deeds B, editors. Crime, HIV and Health: Intersections of Criminal Justice and Public Health Concerns. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chumningan S, Pornputtapong N, Laoteng K, Cheevadhanarak S, Thammarongtham C. 3D Structure Modeling of a Transmembrane Protein, Fatty Acid Elongase. In: Chan JH, Ong Y-S, Cho S-B, editors. Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics: First International Conference, CSBio 2010, Bangkok, Thailand, November 3-5, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 36–45.

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 Current Anesthesiology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Prankster Leaves Fake Animal Facts Around LA Zoo, Hilarity Ensues [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/prankster-leaves-fake-animal-facts-around-la-zoo-hilarity-ensues/

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. Federal Communications Commission: Federal Advisory Committees Follow Requirements, but FCC Should Improve Its Process for Appointing Committee Members. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Dec. Report No.: GAO-05-36.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wang T. Trajectory Similarity Based Prediction for Remaining Useful Life Estimation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 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. Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton’s Staff Sees Campaign As a Real War. New York Times. 1992 Aug 11;A16.

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	Current Anesthesiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Anesthesiol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-6275
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