How to format your references using the Korean Journal of Anesthesiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Korean Journal of Anesthesiology (KJA). 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

Kupferschmidt K. Global health. Report prescribes strong medicine for WHO. Science 2015;349:223–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld N, Woese C. Biology’s next revolution. Nature 2007;445:369.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rouxel OJ, Bekker A, Edwards KJ. Iron isotope constraints on the Archean and Paleoproterozoic ocean redox state. Science 2005;307:1088–91.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chang Y-C, Yang C-Y, Sun R-L, Cheng Y-F, Kao W-C, Yang P-C. Rapid single cell detection of Staphylococcus aureus by aptamer-conjugated gold nanoparticles. Sci Rep 2013;3:1863.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heller D. Hairspray. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

An edited book

Jaworski P, Durante F, Härdle WK, Rychlik T, eds. Copula Theory and Its Applications: Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Warsaw, 25-26 September 2009. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Harmáčková ZV, Lorencová EK, Vačkář D. Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Costs and Benefits of Participatory Ecosystem Services Scenarios for Šumava National Park, Czech Republic. In: Renaud FG, Sudmeier-Rieux K, Estrella M, Nehren U, eds. Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in Practice. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016:99–129.

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 Korean Journal of Anesthesiology.

Blog post

Fang J. We’ve Been Beekeeping For At Least 9,000 Years. IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/weve-been-beekeeping-least-9000-years/. 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

Government Accountability Office. Head Start: Undercover Testing Finds Fraud and Abuse at Selected Head Start Centers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shaw RM. The influence of organizational culture on employee attitudes towards information security policy. 2012.

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

Kishkovsky S. Tatiana Samoilova, 80, Soviet Movie Star. New York Times. May 9, 2014:B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
Abbreviation	Korean J. Anesthesiol.
ISSN (print)	2005-6419
ISSN (online)	2005-7563
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine