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.M. Champion, Chemistry. Following the flow of energy in biomolecules, Science 310 (2005) 980–982.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.E. Eiben, J. Smith, From evolutionary computation to the evolution of things, Nature 521 (2015) 476–482.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Jin, Z. Ouyang, Z. Wang, Association of fruit and vegetables with the risk of nasopharyngeal cancer: evidence from a meta-analysis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5229.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N.A. Piro, J.S. Figueroa, J.T. McKellar, C.C. Cummins, Triple-bond reactivity of diphosphorus molecules, Science 313 (2006) 1276–1279.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Hoffmann, System Integration, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

W. Abramowicz, R. Alt, B. Franczyk, eds., Business Information Systems: 19th International Conference, BIS 2016, Leipzig, Germany, July, 6-8, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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V.P. Gutschick, J.C. Pushnik, Internal Regulation of Nutrient Uptake by Relative Growth Rate and Nutrient-Use Efficiency, in: H. BassiriRad (Ed.), Nutrient Acquisition by Plants: An Ecological Perspective, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005: pp. 63–88.

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]

T. Hale, Dad Builds An Awesome Star Wars Snowspeeder Costume From His Sons Wheelchair, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/dad-builds-his-kid-awesome-star-wars-snowspeeder-costume/ (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, Railroad Safety: Weaknesses Exist in FRA’s Enforcement Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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I.M. Arguello, Circle of Sisters summer program: A grant-writing project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

S. Dominus, A Resilient Figure Stumbles, and Her Fans Wince in Turn, New York Times (2016) A1.

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