How to format your references using the BMC Pulmonary Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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. Brown JR. ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Privatizing the University--the New Tragedy of the Commons. Science. 2000;290:1701–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Skourtis SS, Beratan DN. Biochemistry. Photosynthesis from the protein’s perspective. Science. 2007;316:703–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nolan D, James I, Mallal S. HIV/AIDS. HIV: experiencing the pressures of modern life. Science. 2005;307:1422–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jaskelioff M, Muller FL, Paik J-H, Thomas E, Jiang S, Adams AC, et al. Telomerase reactivation reverses tissue degeneration in aged telomerase-deficient mice. Nature. 2011;469:102–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. van Bosse JG. Signaling in Telecommunication Networks. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2002.

An edited book

1. Mudacumura G, Morçöl G, editors. Challenges to Democratic Governance in Developing Countries. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Liu C, Gong Z. Optimal Control of Nonlinear Multistage Systems. In: Gong Z, editor. Optimal Control of Switched Systems Arising in Fermentation Processes. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 59–76.

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 BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Silver Turns Bacteria Into Killer Zombies. IFLScience. 2015. 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. Energy Research: Opportunities Exist to Recover Federal Investment in Technology Development Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Masuyama G. The Bird Is A Word. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Mueller B, Remnick N. Pregnant Day Care Owner Is Found Dead in Her Bronx Home. New York Times. 2016;:A21.

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	BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Abbreviation	BMC Pulm. Med.
ISSN (online)	1471-2466
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine