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]

Normile D. Strange behavior at one dimension. Science 2000;290:1531.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McGuire AL, Gibbs RA. Genetics. No longer de-identified. Science 2006;312:370–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schenk P, Matsuyama I, Nimmo F. True polar wander on Europa from global-scale small-circle depressions. Nature 2008;453:368–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Salmon PS, Martin RA, Mason PE, Cuello GJ. Topological versus chemical ordering in network glasses at intermediate and extended length scales. Nature 2005;435:75–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Choudhry M. Fixed Income Securities and Derivatives Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Singh M, editor. Novel Immune Potentiators and Delivery Technologies for Next Generation Vaccines. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Burnett LE, Hoffman A. Meet the Royaltons. In: Hoffman A, editor. Black Is the New Green: Marketing to Affluent African Americans, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2010, 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 Journal of Critical Care.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Flatworm Reproduces by Using its Penis to Inject Sperm Into its Head. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/flatworm-reproduces-using-its-penis-inject-sperm-its-head/ (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. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Akers K. The Impact of Work-Family Conflict, Gender, and Family-Friendly Policies on Organizational Attractiveness and Job Pursuit Intentions. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

Johnson G. Science, Lost in a Legal Maze. New York Times 2015:D3.

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