How to format your references using the Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Eisenstein M. Cell sorting: divide and conquer. Nature. 2006;441(7097):1179–1185.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Herzog MH, Fahle M. Effects of grouping in contextual modulation. Nature. 2002;415(6870):433–436.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cao YC, Jin R, Mirkin CA. Nanoparticles with Raman spectroscopic fingerprints for DNA and RNA detection. Science. 2002;297(5586):1536–1540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Sandstrom RS, Foret MR, Grow DA, et al. Epigenetic regulation by chromatin activation mark H3K4me3 in primate progenitor cells within adult neurogenic niche. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Manasreh O. Introduction to Nanomaterials and Devices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Khan NA, editor. Ethylene Action in Plants. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Neumayer M, Zangl H, Watzenig D, et al. Current Reconstruction Algorithms in Electrical Capacitance Tomography. In: Mukhopadhyay SC, Lay-Ekuakille A, Fuchs A, editors. New Developments and Applications in Sensing Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 65–106.

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 Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Playing Tetris Could Reduce Cravings For Drugs, Food and Sex [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/playing-tetris-could-reduce-cravings-drugs-sex-and-food/.

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. Millions in Savings Possible in Converting Programs From One Computer to Another. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977. Report No.: FGMSD-77-34. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Douet C. The influence of an overseas trip to France on high school students studying French, four years after graduation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Wagner J. Cespedes Powers the Mets Again. New York Times. 2016 Aug 22;D3.

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	Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Respir. Med.
ISSN (print)	1747-6348
ISSN (online)	1747-6356
Scope	Immunology and Allergy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine