How to format your references using the Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical 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	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]

J.E. Bradner, Cancer: An essential passenger with p53, Nature 520 (2015) 626–627.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Daubin, N.A. Moran, Comment on “The origins of genome complexity,” Science 306 (2004) 978; author reply 978.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.T. Wade, D.B. Hall, K. Struhl, The transcription factor Ifh1 is a key regulator of yeast ribosomal protein genes, Nature 432 (2004) 1054–1058.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Li, J. Xu, J. Zheng, J. Sokolove, K. Zhu, Y. Zhang, H. Sun, E. Evangelou, Z. Pan, Association between interleukin-6 gene polymorphisms and rheumatoid arthritis in Chinese Han population: a case-control study and a meta-analysis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5714.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Saccone, G. Pesole, Handbook of Comparative Genomics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

R.B. Allen, W.G. Lee, eds., Biological Invasions in New Zealand, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Haas, S. Mittnik, Portfolio Selection with Common Correlation Mixture Models, in: G. Bol, S.T. Rachev, R. Würth (Eds.), Risk Assessment: Decisions in Banking and Finance, Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 47–76.

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 Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Scientists May Have Finally Explained Déjà Vu, IFLScience (2016).

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, CEC Sale of Federal Spectrum, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

F.A. Moris, International Trade in Research and Development Services and the Activity of MNC Subsidiaries, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

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]

S. Al-Batati, B. Hubbard, Bank Defends Dealing With Al Qaeda When It Called the Shots, New York Times (2016) A8.

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	Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care
Abbreviation	Tren. Anaesth. Crit. Care
ISSN (print)	2210-8440
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine