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]

Cresswell P 2004 Cell biology. Cutting and pasting antigenic peptides Science 304 525–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gurdon J B and Bourillot P Y 2001 Morphogen gradient interpretation Nature 413 797–803

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sellman B R, Mourez M and Collier R J 2001 Dominant-negative mutants of a toxin subunit: an approach to therapy of anthrax Science 292 695–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Minokoshi Y, Kim Y-B, Peroni O D, Fryer L G D, Müller C, Carling D and Kahn B B 2002 Leptin stimulates fatty-acid oxidation by activating AMP-activated protein kinase Nature 415 339–43

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sallaberry C 2013 Geographical Information Retrieval in Textual Corpora (Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Alladi K 2008 Surveys in Number Theory vol 17 (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Felbinger H, Pill I and Wotawa F 2016 Classifying Test Suite Effectiveness via Model Inference and ROBBDs Tests and Proofs: 10th International Conference, TAP 2016, Held as Part of STAF 2016, Vienna, Austria, July 5-7, 2016, Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed B K Aichernig and C A Furia (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 76–93

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]

Luntz S 2014 Researchers Use Robo-Chicks To Study Penguins 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 2013 Emergency Alerting: Capabilities Have Improved, but Additional Guidance and Testing Are Needed (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]

Surges G 2015 Generative Audio Systems: Musical Applications of Time-Varying Feedback Networks and Computational Aesthetics 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]

Hoffman C 2013 David Lynch Has a Great Idea for a Movie New York Times MM26

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