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. Turner JA. Sustainable hydrogen production. Science. 2004;305:972–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bardgett RD, van der Putten WH. Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Nature. 2014;515:505–11.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wu B, Chen J, Singer RH. Background free imaging of single mRNAs in live cells using split fluorescent proteins. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3615.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Koehl MA, Koseff JR, Crimaldi JP, McCay MG, Cooper T, Wiley MB, et al. Lobster sniffing: antennule design and hydrodynamic filtering of information in an odor plume. Science. 2001;294:1948–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Liu S-C, Delbruck T, Indiveri G, Whatley A, Douglas R. Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Technau GM, editor. Brain Development in Drosophila melanogaster. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fleige A. A Necessary Aspect of the Generalized Beals Condition for the Riesz Basis Property of Indefinite Sturm-Liouville Problems. In: Förster K-H, Jonas P, Langer H, Trunk C, editors. Operator Theory in Inner Product Spaces. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2007. p. 89–94.

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 E. Polar bear cub at Toronto Zoo has first experience with snow [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/polar-bear-cub-toronto-zoo-has-first-experience-snow/

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. Electronic Government: Progress and Challenges in Implementing the Office of Personnel Management’s Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Sep. Report No.: GAO-03-1169T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pratt JE. Investigating educational systems, leadership, and school culture: A holistic approach [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2014.

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. Koblin J, Corasaniti N. One Nation, Under Fox. New York Times. 2017 Mar 25;A18.

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

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