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. Hoag H. Gene therapy rising? Nature. 2005;435:530–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cummings CA, Relman DA. Genomics and microbiology. Microbial forensics--"cross-examining pathogens". Science. 2002;296:1976–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dvorak M, Oswald W, Wu Z. Bandgap opening by patterning graphene. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2289.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ura Y, Beierle JM, Leman LJ, Orgel LE, Ghadiri MR. Self-assembling sequence-adaptive peptide nucleic acids. Science. 2009;325:73–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Vander Vorst A, Rosen A, Kotsuka Y. RF/Microwave Interaction with Biological Tissues. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Lattanzio V. Mammography: Guide to Interpreting, Reporting and Auditing Mammographic Images — Re.Co.R.M. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Weiss RA. Oncogenic Viruses and Cancer Transmission. In: Robertson ES, editor. Cancer Associated Viruses. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012. p. 101–18.

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. Andrew E. Flat Semiconductors Possible With New Material. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/flat-semiconductors-possible-new-material/. 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. Protest of Nonresponsive Determination. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lee M. A graphic design curriculum development project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Grynbaum MM, Koblin J. For Fox News, Life After Bill O’Reilly Will Feature Tucker Carlson. New York Times. 2017;:B1.

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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