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]

Belzig W. QUANTUM SIMULATION. Josephson contacts of neutral strongly interacting fermions. Science 2015;350:1470.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Catania KC, Remple FE. Asymptotic prey profitability drives star-nosed moles to the foraging speed limit. Nature 2005;433:519–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

James LC, Roversi P, Tawfik DS. Antibody multispecificity mediated by conformational diversity. Science 2003;299:1362–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Sakulkhu U, Mahmoudi M, Maurizi L, Salaklang J, Hofmann H. Protein corona composition of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles with various physico-chemical properties and coatings. Sci Rep 2014;4:5020.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Barron RF, Barron BR. Design for Thermal Stresses. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Ho R, Drost R, editors. Coupled Data Communication Techniques for High-Performance and Low-Power Computing. vol. 0. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kakas AC, Cohn D, Dasgupta S, Barto AG, Carpenter GA, Grossberg S, et al. ACO. In: Sammut C, Webb GI, editors. Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010, p. 10–10.

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]

Andrew E. Some Corals are Already Adapting to Warmer Oceans. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/some-corals-are-already-adapting-warmer-oceans/ (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. ADP Acquisitions: Lessons Learned From SEC’s Edgar Pilot Test. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Allard IN. Examining the relationship between organizational culture and performance: Moderators of culture gap. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 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

[1]

Kelly M. And on Kohl’s Agenda (or Was It Menu?). New York Times 1993:14.

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