How to format your references using the Cough citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cough. 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 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. Quaglioni S. Nuclear physics: Close encounters of the alpha kind. Nature. 2015;528:42–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nicholls RJ, Cazenave A. Sea-level rise and its impact on coastal zones. Science. 2010;328:1517–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Azuma S, Katayama I, Nakakuki T. Rheological decoupling at the Moho and implication to Venusian tectonics. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4403.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lumelsky N, Blondel O, Laeng P, Velasco I, Ravin R, McKay R. Differentiation of embryonic stem cells to insulin-secreting structures similar to pancreatic islets. Science. 2001;292:1389–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Vona LW. Fraud Data Analytics Methodology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

1. Brooks BW, Huggett DB, editors. Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Current and Future Perspectives. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Potter GB, Gibbs JC, Robbins M, Langdon PE. Equipping with Skills to Manage Anger and Correct Thinking Errors. In: Gibbs JC, Robbins M, Langdon PE, editors. A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for Offenders: Responsible Adult Culture. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 141–82.

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 Cough.

Blog post

1. Hale T. There Could Be Some Big Cybersecurity Issues With “Pokémon Go.” IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/there-could-be-some-big-cybersecurity-issues-with-pokemon-go/. 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. Strategic Forces: Supportability, Maintainability, and Readiness of the B-1B Bomber. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Madigan JP. Regulation of localization and function of the Rho family small GTPase, Rnd3. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina; 2008.

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. Pilon M. Top Sprinters Test Positive, Jolting Track World. New York Times. 2013;:A1.

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	Cough
ISSN (print)	1745-9974
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