How to format your references using the Journal of Anesthesia History citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Anesthesia History. 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

Dunn B. Cancer: Solving an age-old problem. Nature. 2012;483(7387):S2-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sandeep S, Ajayamohan RS. Origin of cold bias over the Arabian Sea in Climate Models. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6403.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wurmser AE, Palmer TD, Gage FH. Neuroscience. Cellular interactions in the stem cell niche. Science. 2004;304(5675):1253-1255.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vo MN, Terrey M, Lee JW, et al. ANKRD16 prevents neuron loss caused by an editing-defective tRNA synthetase. Nature. 2018;557(7706):510-515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor CJ, Young PC, Chotai A. True Digital Control. John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Zwaag S van der, ed. Self Healing Materials: An Alternative Approach to 20 Centuries of Materials Science. Vol 100. Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Bäck J, Nikinmaa E, Kulmala L, et al. Processes in Living Structures. In: Hari P, Heliövaara K, Kulmala L, eds. Physical and Physiological Forest Ecology. Springer Netherlands; 2013:43-223.

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 Journal of Anesthesia History.

Blog post

Fang J. Mutated Plants Can Remove TNT From The Soil. IFLScience. September 7, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mutated-plants-break-down-tnt-soil/

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. Review of the Administration of Research and Demonstration Grants by the Rehabilitation Services Administration. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodgers R. Phylogenomic Analysis of Fundulidae Using RNA-Sequencing Data. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 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

Savodnik P. If They Build It, Will The Kardashians Come? New York Times. February 8, 2013:MM32.

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	Journal of Anesthesia History
Abbreviation	J. Anesth. Hist.
ISSN (print)	2352-4529
Scope