How to format your references using the Resuscitation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Resuscitation. 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

[1]

Thomas JM. Centenary: The birth of X-ray crystallography. Nature 2012;491:186–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kim BH, Kwon JW. Metal catalyst for low-temperature growth of controlled zinc oxide nanowires on arbitrary substrates. Sci Rep 2014;4:4379.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xiao Y, Wang Y, Felleman DJ. A spatially organized representation of colour in macaque cortical area V2. Nature 2003;421:535–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu Y, Li C, Gao J, Wang W, Huang L, Guo X, et al. Comparative characterization of two intracellular Ca²⁺-release channels from the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. Sci Rep 2014;4:6702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

van der Heide P. Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Kourtis AP, Bulterys M, editors. Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) and Breastfeeding: Science, Research Advances, and Policy. vol. 743. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Campi A, Ceri S, Maesani A, Ronchi S. Designing Service Marts for Engineering Search Computing Applications. In: Benatallah B, Casati F, Kappel G, Rossi G, editors. Web Engineering: 10th International Conference, ICWE 2010, Vienna Austria, July 5-9, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 50–65.

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 Resuscitation.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Study Confirms That Ebola Is Not Transmitted Through The Air. IFLScience 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. New Computer Was Not Needed for the St. Louis Computer Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Busalacchi NM. Access to healthcare: Disparities between the non-elderly adult population. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Wilson M. A Cry for Help as a Witness Recounts a Man’s Fall Onto the Subway Tracks. New York Times 2017:A19.

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	Resuscitation
Abbreviation	Resuscitation
ISSN (print)	0300-9572
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Emergency Medicine Emergency