How to format your references using the Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management. 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

Grangier P. Physics. Room for just one photon. Science. 2012;336(6083):812-813.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enriquez J, Gullans S. Olympics: Genetically enhanced Olympics are coming. Nature. 2012;487(7407):297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Munsky B, Neuert G, van Oudenaarden A. Using gene expression noise to understand gene regulation. Science. 2012;336(6078):183-187.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Riller U, Poelchau MH, Rae ASP, et al. Rock fluidization during peak-ring formation of large impact structures. Nature. 2018;562(7728):511-518.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cross M, MacDonald B. Nutrition in Institutions. Wiley-Blackwell; 2008.

An edited book

Gao W, ed. Graphene Oxide: Reduction Recipes, Spectroscopy, and Applications. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Smirnov A, Kashevnik A, Shilov N, Oliver I, Balandin S, Boldyrev S. Anonymous Agent Coordination in Smart Spaces: State-of-the-Art. In: Balandin S, Moltchanov D, Koucheryavy Y, eds. Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking: 9th International Conference, NEW2AN 2009 and Second Conference on Smart Spaces, RuSMART 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 15-18, 2009. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2009:42-51.

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 Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management.

Blog post

Andrew E. Fish Can Make Their Own Sunscreen. IFLScience. May 17, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fish-can-make-their-own-sunscreen/

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. Education and Care: Head Start Key Among Array of Early Childhood Programs, but National Research on Effectiveness Not Completed. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rountree BL. Theory and Practice of Dynamic Voltage /Frequency Scaling in the High Performance Computing Environment. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2010.

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

Brantley B. A Woman’s Fortune, and Her Ruin. New York Times. May 16, 2017:C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Perioperative Care and Operating Room Management
Abbreviation	Perioper. Care Oper. Room Manag.
ISSN (print)	2405-6030
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Surgery Medical–Surgical