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. Gibson G. Cancer: Directions for the drivers. Nature. 2014;512:31–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Aychek T, Jung S. Immunology. The axis of tolerance. Science. 2014;343:1439–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bugreev DV, Mazina OM, Mazin AV. Rad54 protein promotes branch migration of Holliday junctions. Nature. 2006;442:590–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pasquarello A, Petri I, Salmon PS, Parisel O, Car R, Toth E, et al. First solvation shell of the Cu(II) aqua ion: evidence for fivefold coordination. Science. 2001;291:856–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Alvarez PJJ, Illman WA. Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Kern-Isberner G, Rödder W, Kulmann F, editors. Conditionals, Information, and Inference: International Workshop, WCII 2002, Hagen, Germany, May 13-15, 2002, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Guex J, Galster F, Hammer Ø. The UA Method and the UAgraph Program. In: Galster F, Hammer Ø, editors. Discrete Biochronological Time Scales. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 27–50.

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. Andrew D. A Survival Guide For The Coming AI Revolution [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/a-survival-guide-for-the-coming-ai-revolution/

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 Student Aid: Expanding Eligibility for Less Than Halftime Students Could Increase Program Costs, But Benefits Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Sep. Report No.: GAO-03-905.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Glazer K. Imagining a constructionist game-based pedagogical model: Using tabletop role-playing game creation to enhance literature education in high school English classes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2015.

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. Gorman J. With Lasers in the Flight Plan, Goggles Are Vital. New York Times. 2016 Dec 21;D2.

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