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

Bowles S. Being human: Conflict: Altruism’s midwife. Nature. 2008;456(7220):326-327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schuur EAG, Abbott B. Climate change: High risk of permafrost thaw. Nature. 2011;480(7375):32-33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xue S, Calvin K, Li H. RNA recognition and cleavage by a splicing endonuclease. Science. 2006;312(5775):906-910.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Piao J, Tsuji K, Ochi H, et al. Sirt6 regulates postnatal growth plate differentiation and proliferation via Ihh signaling. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3022.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gustafsson F. Adaptive Filtering and Change Detection. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2001.

An edited book

Kim TH, Pal SK, Grosky WI, Pissinou N, Shih TK, Ślęzak D, eds. Signal Processing and Multimedia: International Conferences, SIP and MulGraB 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-15, 2010. Proceedings. Vol 123. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Barras B, Tankink C, Tassi E. Asynchronous Processing of Coq Documents: From the Kernel up to the User Interface. In: Urban C, Zhang X, eds. Interactive Theorem Proving: 6th International Conference, ITP 2015, Nanjing, China, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2015:51-66.

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. How Well Do You Know Your Shit? IFLScience. June 12, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-well-do-you-know-your-st/

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. Audit of Accounts at the U.S. Army Research and Development Command. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gill GJ. The Experience of Family Caregiving of the Terminally Ill: A Phenomenological Study. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2009.

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

Vecsey G. Jordan’s No. 23 Just Isn’t the Retiring Type. New York Times. March 14, 2010:SP6.

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