How to format your references using the Journal of Anesthesia History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Anesthesia History. 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

Hoag H. BSE case rattles Canadian officials. Nature. 2003;423(6939):467.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kara P, Boyd JD. A micro-architecture for binocular disparity and ocular dominance in visual cortex. Nature. 2009;458(7238):627-631.

A journal article with 3 authors

Redford KH, Jensen DB, Breheny JJ. Ecology. Integrating the captive and the wild. Science. 2012;338(6111):1157-1158.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ruepp A, Graml W, Santos-Martinez ML, et al. The genome sequence of the thermoacidophilic scavenger Thermoplasma acidophilum. Nature. 2000;407(6803):508-513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kiehl AR, Mays MBC. Atlas for the Diagnosis of Tumors in the Dog and Cat. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Holz T, Bos H, eds. Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 8th International Conference; DIMVA 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 7-8, 2011. Proceedings. Vol 6739. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Zmitko M, Krejcar O. Idea of Personal Digital Memories Using Smart Application. In: Park JJ (jong H, Chao HC, Arabnia H, Yen NY, eds. Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering: Future Information Technology Volume 2. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer; 2016:33-39.

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 Journal of Anesthesia History.

Blog post

Fang J. Existence of Exotic Hadron Confirmed. IFLScience.

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. Post-9/11 GI Bill: Additional Actions Needed to Help Reduce Overpayments and Increase Collections. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Layer BD. Structured Plasma Waveguides and Deep EUV Generation Enabled by Intense Laser-Cluster Interactions. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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

Walsh MW, Goodnough A. Edging Toward Default. New York Times. July 12, 2011:B1.

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	Journal of Anesthesia History
Abbreviation	J. Anesth. Hist.
ISSN (print)	2352-4529
Scope