How to format your references using the Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care. 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]

P. Smaglik, A question of age, Nature. 434 (2005) 1159.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.M. Brucker, S.R. Bordenstein, Response to Comment on “The hologenomic basis of speciation: gut bacteria cause hybrid lethality in the genus Nasonia,” Science. 345 (2014) 1011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Li, M. Leid, E.V. Rothenberg, An early T cell lineage commitment checkpoint dependent on the transcription factor Bcl11b, Science. 329 (2010) 89–93.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.E. Cole, J.B. Williams, B.T. King, M.S. Sherwin, C.R. Stanley, Coherent manipulation of semiconductor quantum bits with terahertz radiation, Nature. 410 (2001) 60–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Z. Ni, C. Pacoret, R. Benosman, S. Régnier, Haptic Feedback Teleoperation of Optical Tweezers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

J. Hodicky, ed., Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems: Second International Workshop, MESAS 2015, Prague, Czech Republic, April 29-30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.K. Keshari, Foreign Multinationals and Domestic Enterprises: Comparison of Their Technological and Other Characteristics in the Indian Machinery Industry, in: N.S. Siddharthan, K. Narayanan (Eds.), Technology: Corporate and Social Dimensions, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 57–88.

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 Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Real Crisis In Psychology Isn’t That Studies Don’t Replicate, But That We Usually Don’t Even Try, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/real-crisis-psychology-isn-t-studies-don-t-replicate-we-usually-don-t-even-try/ (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, Aviation Safety: FAA Generally Agrees With but Is Slow in Implementing Safety Recommendations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Mihalcin, A comparison of the Children’s Functional Assessment Rating Scale and the Child Behavior Checklist used in a wraparound program, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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]

B. Brantley, That Close-Up, in Fine Focus, New York Times. (2017) C1.

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	Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care
Abbreviation	Tren. Anaesth. Crit. Care
ISSN (print)	2210-8440
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine