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

Menaker M. Circadian rhythms. Circadian photoreception. Science. 2003;299(5604):213-214.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blanpain C, Fuchs E. Stem cell plasticity. Plasticity of epithelial stem cells in tissue regeneration. Science. 2014;344(6189):1242281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bruner SD, Norman DP, Verdine GL. Structural basis for recognition and repair of the endogenous mutagen 8-oxoguanine in DNA. Nature. 2000;403(6772):859-866.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gorthi A, Romero JC, Loranc E, et al. EWS-FLI1 increases transcription to cause R-loops and block BRCA1 repair in Ewing sarcoma. Nature. 2018;555(7696):387-391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dal Pont JP, Azzaro-Pantel C. New Approaches to the Process Industries. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Niederhuber JE. Totally Implantable Venous Access Devices: Management in Mid- and Long-Term Clinical Setting. (Carlo ID, Biffi R, eds.). Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Carment D, Delany C, Ampleford S, Conway G, Ospina A. Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Developing an Indicators-Based User Friendly Risk Assessment and Early Warning Capability. In: Trappl R, ed. Programming for Peace: Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention. Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation. Springer Netherlands; 2006:81-113.

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

Davis J. Doctors Identify 40 Different Treatments That Bring Little Or No Benefit To The Patient. IFLScience.

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. Credit Programs: Key Agencies Should Better Document Procedures for Estimating Subsidy Costs. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yahyai S. Optimization of a Method for Testing Ballast Water for Enterococci and an Investigation on the Occurrence of Antibiotic Resistance in Vibrio Cholerae. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2013.

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

Koblin J. Fox Wants Harassment Suit by Host Sent to Arbitration. New York Times. August 30, 2016:B4.

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