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]

Markó IE. Natural product synthesis. The art of total synthesis. Science. 2001;294:1842–1843.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zufall RA, Rausher MD. Genetic changes associated with floral adaptation restrict future evolutionary potential. Nature. 2004;428:847–850.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dwyer MA, Looger LL, Hellinga HW. Computational design of a biologically active enzyme. Science. 2004;304:1967–1971.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Nguyen KB, Watford WT, Salomon R, et al. Critical role for STAT4 activation by type 1 interferons in the interferon-gamma response to viral infection. Science. 2002;297:2063–2066.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Li F. Developing Chemical Information Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Reible DD, editor. Processes, Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Du D-Z, Wan P-J. CDS in Unit Ball Graphs and Growth Bounded Graphs. In: Wan P-J, editor. Connected Dominating Set: Theory and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 63–75.

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]

Fang J. Songbirds Can Sense Impending Storms [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/songbirds-can-sense-impending-storms-and-skedaddle/.

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. Planning for the Security of Local Area Networks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986. Report No.: 129557. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tsang SD. The depth range of azimuthal anisotropy beneath Southern California via analyses of long-period Rayleigh-waves [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Link K. Subversive Pleasure. New York Times. 2015 May 24;BR29.

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