How to format your references using the Current Pulmonology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Pulmonology Reports. 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. Sharpe T. Geology. The birth of the geological map. Science. 2015;347:230–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Südhof TC, Rothman JE. Membrane fusion: grappling with SNARE and SM proteins. Science. 2009;323:474–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Weis P, Driesner T, Heinrich CA. Porphyry-copper ore shells form at stable pressure-temperature fronts within dynamic fluid plumes. Science. 2012;338:1613–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yang J-S, Kim J, Park S, Jeon J, Shin Y-E, Kim S. Spatial and functional organization of mitochondrial protein network. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1403.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Albalate A, Minker W. Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Li WD, McMahon C, Ong SK, Nee AYC, editors. Collaborative Product Design and Manufacturing Methodologies and Applications. London: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Telegeev I, Voronin E, Pakhlov E. Modification of Nanosilica Surface by Methyl Methacrylate Silane Coupling Agents. In: Reithmaier JP, Paunovic P, Kulisch W, Popov C, Petkov P, editors. Nanotechnological Basis for Advanced Sensors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. p. 51–4.

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 Current Pulmonology Reports.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Mysterious Ancient Geoglyphs Discovered In Kazakhstan Leave Archeologists Perplexed [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mysterious-ancient-geoglyphs-discovered-kazakhstan-leave-archaeologists-perplexed/

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. Use of Computers at Naval Laboratories. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Aug. Report No.: B-115369.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Crowley CE. Aging of Florida Blue Crabs, Callinectes sapidus, Through the Biochemical Extraction of Lipofuscin [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2012.

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. Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Debates; Clinton Aides Try to Pressure Bush on Format. New York Times. 1992 Sep 14;A17.

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	Current Pulmonology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Pulmonol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2199-2428
Scope