title: Improvement in the accuracy of references in the journal Emergency Medicine Australasia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study any change in reference accuracy in the Australasian emergency medicine journal (now known as Emergency Medicine Australasia), in the 10 years since a previous analysis was undertaken.
  
  
  METHODS
  A sample of 100 randomly selected references was compared with the results from the previous analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was a significant reduction in the number of citations with errors and in the total number of errors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This paper demonstrates a significant improvement in the accuracy of references in the journal Emergency Medicine Australasia over the past decade. This paper did not identify the reasons for this improvement, but potential causes might include the introduction of a web-based peer review and manuscript submission process, as well as improved reference bibliography systems by authors. In addition, an increase in the overall standard of paper submitted to the journal might have contributed to this improvement.
authors: Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. alan_o'connor@health.qld.gov.au
authors: Alan E
authors: AE
authors: O'Connor
authors: William
authors: W
authors: Lukin
authors: Lars
authors: L
authors: Eriksson
authors: Colm
authors: C
authors: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D001634:Bibliographies as Topic; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D017712:Peer Review, Research; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011643:Publishing / Q000592:standards