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. Harshaw C. ANIMAL COGNITION. Comment on “Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans’ mental number line.” Science. 2015;348:1438.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wibberley CAJ, Shimamoto T. Earthquake slip weakening and asperities explained by thermal pressurization. Nature. 2005;436:689–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Silk JB, Alberts SC, Altmann J. Social bonds of female baboons enhance infant survival. Science. 2003;302:1231–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Dequéant M-L, Glynn E, Gaudenz K, Wahl M, Chen J, Mushegian A, et al. A complex oscillating network of signaling genes underlies the mouse segmentation clock. Science. 2006;314:1595–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Eales L-J. Immunology for Life Scientists. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Pagel JF, Pandi-Perumal SR, editors. Primary Care Sleep Medicine: A Practical Guide. 2nd ed. 2014. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bulling A, Roggen D, Tröster G. EyeMote – Towards Context-Aware Gaming Using Eye Movements Recorded from Wearable Electrooculography. In: Markopoulos P, Ruyter B de, IJsselsteijn W, Rowland D, editors. Fun and Games: Second International Conference, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 20-21, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 33–45.

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. Fang J. Ancient Jellies Had Hard Armor And No Tentacles [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-jellies-had-hard-armor-and-no-tentacles/

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. NASA’s Development of EOSDIS. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Mar. Report No.: IMTEC-92-42R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kramer-Duffield J. Beliefs and uses of tagging among undergraduates [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 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. Barron J. Le Train Bleu Is Departing Bloomingdale’s. A Rail Buff Sees It Off. New York Times. 2016 Dec 18;A19.

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
Scope

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