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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Intensive 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	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. Vinogradov AE. Testing genome complexity. Science. 2004;304:389–90; author reply 389-90.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Edgar BA, Kim KJ. Cell biology. Sizing up the cell. Science. 2009;325:158–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Butov LV, Gossard AC, Chemla DS. Macroscopically ordered state in an exciton system. Nature. 2002;418:751–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Finney BP, Gregory-Eaves I, Douglas MSV, Smol JP. Fisheries productivity in the northeastern Pacific Ocean over the past 2,200 years. Nature. 2002;416:729–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cowan JP. The Effects of Sound on People. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Cazenave T, Winands MHM, Iida H, editors. Computer Games: Workshop on Computer Games, CGW 2013, Held in Conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2013, Beijing, China, August 3, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gilbert JK, Justi R. Approaches to Modelling-Based Teaching. In: Justi R, editor. Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 57–80.

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 Intensive Care.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Meet the New Blue and Purple Crayfish from Indonesia [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-new-blue-and-purple-crayfish-indonesia/

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. Highway Fund Audit. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Nov. Report No.: AIMD-97-14R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wellman TE. Employment Discrimination against Military Spouses: Illegal Contrary to Popular Belief and Practice [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington 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. Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Oct 13;MM22.

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 Intensive Care
Abbreviation	J. Intensive Care
ISSN (online)	2052-0492
Scope