How to format your references using the Journal of Breath Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Breath Research. 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]

Koshland D E Jr 2007 Philosophy of science. The Cha-Cha-Cha Theory of Scientific Discovery Science 317 761–2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Becker N B and Everaers R 2009 Comment on “Remeasuring the double helix” Science 325 538; author reply 538

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Exadaktylos F, Espín A M and Brañas-Garza P 2013 Experimental subjects are not different Sci. Rep. 3 1213

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Meyer J, Kidambi P R, Bayer B C, Weijtens C, Kuhn A, Centeno A, Pesquera A, Zurutuza A, Robertson J and Hofmann S 2014 Metal oxide induced charge transfer doping and band alignment of graphene electrodes for efficient organic light emitting diodes Sci. Rep. 4 5380

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Prud’homme R 2012 Flows and Chemical Reactions (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Filipe J and Cordeiro J 2009 Enterprise Information Systems: 11th International Conference, ICEIS 2009, Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009. Proceedings vol 24 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chen Z and Lu M 2016 Economic Opening and Domestic Market Integration Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration: Empirical Studies of China’s Urban-Rural and Interregional Development ed M Lu (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 89–109

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 Journal of Breath Research.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D 2016 How We Discovered The ‘Higgs Bison’, Hiding In Plain Sight In Ancient Cave Art IFLScience

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 1994 Surface Transportation: Tight Budget Environment Requires Sound Investment Strategy (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Boudreau P D 2015 Orthogonality in Natural Products Workflows Doctoral dissertation (La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego)

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]

Gorman J 2016 In Defense of the Donkey New York Times D1

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	Journal of Breath Research
Abbreviation	J. Breath Res.
ISSN (print)	1752-7155
ISSN (online)	1752-7163
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine