How to format your references using the Resuscitation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Resuscitation. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Young LJ. Being human: love: neuroscience reveals all. Nature 2009;457:148.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zahn M, von Storch H. Decreased frequency of North Atlantic polar lows associated with future climate warming. Nature 2010;467:309–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bastos-Aristizabal S, Kozlov G, Gehring K. Structure of the substrate-binding b’ domain of the Protein Disulfide Isomerase-Like protein of the Testis. Sci Rep 2014;4:4464.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gittins DI, Bethell D, Schiffrin DJ, Nichols RJ. A nanometre-scale electronic switch consisting of a metal cluster and redox-addressable groups. Nature 2000;408:67–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Obayya S. Computational Photonics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Astolfi A. Nonlinear and Adaptive Control with Applications. London: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fdhila W, Rinderle-Ma S, Indiono C. Memetic Algorithms for Mining Change Logs in Process Choreographies. In: Franch X, Ghose AK, Lewis GA, Bhiri S, editors. Service-Oriented Computing: 12th International Conference, ICSOC 2014, Paris, France, November 3-6, 2014. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 47–62.

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 Resuscitation.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti C. Watch The Moment A Baby Kangaroo Is Rescued From Dead Mother’s Pouch. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-the-moment-a-baby-kangaroo-is-rescued-from-dead-mothers-pouch/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Technology Transfer: Administration of the Bayh-Dole Act by Research Universities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Peterson C. Psycho-socio-cultural risk factors for breech presentation. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2008.

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]

Ervin A. Tales of the Unhinged. New York Times 2017:BR18.

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	Resuscitation
Abbreviation	Resuscitation
ISSN (print)	0300-9572
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Emergency Medicine Emergency