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]

Herrmann W A 2007 Obituary: Ernst Otto Fischer (1918-2007) Nature 449 156

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Farmer M E and Baran P S 2015 Organic chemistry: A cure for catalyst poisoning Nature 524 164–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Camilleri E, Rohde P P and Twamley J 2014 Quantum walks with tuneable self-avoidance in one dimension Sci. Rep. 4 4791

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Gelhaus H C, Anderson M S, Fisher D A, Flavin M T, Xu Z-Q and Sanford D C 2013 Efficacy of post exposure administration of doxycycline in a murine model of inhalational melioidosis Sci. Rep. 3 1146

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

May V and Kühn O 2007 Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH)

An edited book

[1]

Chen J, Hu X, Stenzel-Poore M and Zhang J H 2014 Immunological Mechanisms and Therapies in Brain Injuries and Stroke vol 6 (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Clemente P, Lasagna M, Dino G A and De Luca D A 2015 Comparison of Different Methods for Detecting Irrigation Canals Leakage Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 3: River Basins, Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources ed G Lollino, M Arattano, M Rinaldi, O Giustolisi, J-C Marechal and G E Grant (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 23–6

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 E 2014 Man Pronounces Name of Longest Protein 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 2014 Export Controls: NASA Management Action and Improved Oversight Needed to Reduce the Risk of Unauthorized Access to Its Technologies (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]

Gilman D G 2013 Comparative analysis of corporate culture in a multinational organization Doctoral dissertation (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University)

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]

Kishkovsky S 2012 Russians See Church and State Come Closer New York Times A4

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