How to format your references using the Australian Critical Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Critical Care (AUCC). 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 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

Rose Steven. Darwin 200: Should scientists study race and IQ? NO: Science and society do not benefit. Nature 2009;457(7231):786–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marone Chris, Richardson Eliza. Geophysics. Do earthquakes rupture piece by piece or all together? Science 2006;313(5794):1748–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Callier Viviane, Clack Jennifer A., Ahlberg Per E. Contrasting developmental trajectories in the earliest known tetrapod forelimbs. Science 2009;324(5925):364–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Reichow Marc K., Saunders Andrew D., White Rosalind V., Pringle Malcolm S., Al’Mukhamedov Alexander I., Medvedev Alexander I., et al. 40Ar/39Ar dates from the West Siberian Basin: Siberian flood basalt province doubled. Science 2002;296(5574):1846–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Franssen Jean-Marc, Vila Real Paulo. Fire Design of Steel Structures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

Müller Jörg P., Ketter Wolf, Kaminka Gal, Wagner Gerd, Bulling Nils, editors. Multiagent System Technologies: 13th German Conference, MATES 2015, Cottbus, Germany, September 28 - 30, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 9433. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Luderer Bernd, Nollau Volker, Vetters Klaus. Sequences and Series. In: Nollau Volker, Vetters Klaus, editors. Mathematical Formulas for Economists. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 21–30.

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 Australian Critical Care.

Blog post

Andrew Elise. Beautiful Park Spends Half The Year Completely Underwater. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/beautiful-park-spends-half-year-completely-underwater/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2014.

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

Government Accountability Office. Federal Support for Restaurant Sanitation Found Largely Ineffective. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stangl Bethany L. The mediation of cognitive task performance in post-menopausal women: An examination of the effects of DHEA upon cognition. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 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

Branch John. Short, Hard Climb (So He Hoped). New York Times 2016:D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Australian Critical Care
Abbreviation	Aust. Crit. Care
ISSN (print)	1036-7314
Scope	Critical Care Emergency