How to format your references using the Current Respiratory Care Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Respiratory Care 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. Ploegh HL. A lipid-based model for the creation of an escape hatch from the endoplasmic reticulum. Nature. 2007;448:435–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Shi F, Lemmon MA. Biochemistry. KSR plays CRAF-ty. Science. 2011;332:1043–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Barsic A, Grover G, Piestun R. Three-dimensional super-resolution and localization of dense clusters of single molecules. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5388.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kuemmeth F, Ilani S, Ralph DC, McEuen PL. Coupling of spin and orbital motion of electrons in carbon nanotubes. Nature. 2008;452:448–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Neuber A, Nuttall T. Diagnostic Techniques in Veterinary Dermatology. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Wang H, Zou L, Huang G, He J, Pang C, Zhang HL, et al., editors. Web Technologies and Applications: APWeb 2012 International Workshops: SenDe, IDP, IEKB, MBC, Kunming, China, April 11-13, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Liza FF, Grześ M. Estimating the Accuracy of Spectral Learning for HMMs. In: Dichev C, Agre G, editors. Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 17th International Conference, AIMSA 2016, Varna, Bulgaria, September 7-10, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 46–56.

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 Respiratory Care Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Spiders Have Threesomes To Avoid Cannibalistic Females [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spiders-have-threesomes-to-avoid-cannibalistic-females/

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. Airline Competition: Weak Financial Structure Threatens Competition. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Apr. Report No.: RCED-91-110.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Barta ME. Culture, customer-centricity, and customer relationship management in an online postsecondary learning institution [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2009.

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. Stelter B. Waking Up On The Wrong Side Of A Rating War. New York Times. 2013 Apr 18;MM24.

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 Respiratory Care Reports
ISSN (online)	2161-332X
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