How to format your references using the Annals of Intensive Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Intensive 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	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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. McCabe H. France sets up elite Internet school. Nature. 2000;405:381.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fagiolini M, Hensch TK. Inhibitory threshold for critical-period activation in primary visual cortex. Nature. 2000;404:183–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wender PA, Kee J-M, Warrington JM. Practical synthesis of prostratin, DPP, and their analogs, adjuvant leads against latent HIV. Science. 2008;320:649–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Guo Z, Liu Z-G, Yao X-Z, Zhang K-S, Chen X, Liu J-H, et al. A molecular-gap device for specific determination of mercury ions. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3115.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Equipment Testing Procedures Committee of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Trayed and Packed Columns. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Weist MD, Lever NA, Bradshaw CP, Owens JS, editors. Handbook of School Mental Health: Research, Training, Practice, and Policy. 2nd ed. 2014. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schuecker C, Pettermann HE. Combining Elastic Brittle Damage with Plasticity to Model the Non-linear behavior of Fiber Reinforced Laminates. In: Dávila CG, Pinho ST, Remmers JJC, editors. Mechanical Response of Composites. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 99–117.

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 Annals of Intensive Care.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Female Anaconda At Safari Park Has “Virgin Birth” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/female-anaconda-safari-park-has-virgin-birth/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. NASA’s Clipperton Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Feb. Report No.: NSIAD-96-90R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chitakasempornkul K. Ordinal time series analysis for Air Quality Index (AQI) in San Bernardino County [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Wines M. Pennsylvania Lawsuit Is Latest to Call House Redistricting a Partisan Gerrymander. New York Times. 2017 Jun 16;A14.

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	Annals of Intensive Care
Abbreviation	Ann. Intensive Care
ISSN (online)	2110-5820
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine