How to format your references using the Journal of Critical Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Critical Care. 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]

Innerarity TL. Structural biology. LDL receptor’s beta-propeller displaces LDL. Science 2002;298:2337–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Entcheva E, Williams JC. Channelrhodopsin2 current during the action potential: “optical AP clamp” and approximation. Sci Rep 2014;4:5838.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wang K, Dickinson RE, Liang S. Clear sky visibility has decreased over land globally from 1973 to 2007. Science 2009;323:1468–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

McWatters HG, Bastow RM, Hall A, Millar AJ. The ELF3 zeitnehmer regulates light signalling to the circadian clock. Nature 2000;408:716–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dimond B. Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Oja SS, Saransaari P, editors. Taurine 6. vol. 583. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lin CY-Y, Edvinsson L, Chen J, Beding T. Future Perspectives and Policy Implications. In: Edvinsson L, Chen J, Beding T, editors. National Intellectual Capital and the Financial Crisis in Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea, and South Africa, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 71–91.

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 Critical Care.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. One Of Earth’s Closest Failed Stars May Actually Be A Rogue Planet. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/one-of-earths-closest-failed-stars-may-actually-be-a-rogue-planet/ (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. D.C. Tuition Assistance Grants: Program May Increase College Choices, but a Few Program Procedures May Hinder Grant Receipt for Some Residents. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Beeler MC. Disordered Ultracold Two-Dimensional Bose Gases. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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 C. Linking History and Fortunes of a City and a Team. New York Times 2012:A29B.

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	Journal of Critical Care
Abbreviation	J. Crit. Care
ISSN (print)	0883-9441
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine