How to format your references using the Current Anesthesiology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Anesthesiology Reports. 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. Bakardjiev A. Immunology: Stillbirth prevented by signal blockade. Nature. 2015;520:627–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gaskell G, Gottweis H. Biobanks need publicity. Nature. 2011;471:159–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Richards-Kortum R, Gray LV, Oden M. IBI* series winner. Engaging undergraduates in global health technology innovation. Science. 2012;336:430–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Parlati F, McNew JA, Fukuda R, Miller R, Söllner TH, Rothman JE. Topological restriction of SNARE-dependent membrane fusion. Nature. 2000;407:194–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Geng H. Data Center Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. Thurmond RL, editor. Histamine in Inflammation. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Auger P, de la Parra RB, Poggiale J-C, Sánchez E, Nguyen-Huu T. Aggregation of Variables and Applications to Population Dynamics. In: Magal P, Ruan S, editors. Structured Population Models in Biology and Epidemiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 209–63.

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 Current Anesthesiology Reports.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Success! Juno Enters Orbit Around Jupiter In Historic Mission [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/success-juno-enters-orbit-around-jupiter-in-historic-mission/. 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. Medicaid: Intergovernmental Transfers Have Facilitated State Financing Schemes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Mar. Report No.: GAO-04-574T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ramakrishnan T. Rehabilitating Asymmetric Gait Using Asymmetry [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2017.

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. Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Sep 15;MM28.

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	Current Anesthesiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Anesthesiol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-6275
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