How to format your references using the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis citation style

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

Wunsch C. Moon, tides and climate. Nature 2000;405:743–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Koch C, Hepp K. Quantum mechanics in the brain. Nature 2006;440:611.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Galloway KE, Franco E, Smolke CD. Dynamically reshaping signaling networks to program cell fate via genetic controllers. Science 2013;341:1235005.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pawelek PD, Croteau N, Ng-Thow-Hing C, Khursigara CM, Moiseeva N, Allaire M, et al. Structure of TonB in complex with FhuA, E. coli outer membrane receptor. Science 2006;312:1399–402.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bojar RM. Manual of Perioperative Care in Adult Cardiac Surgery. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Brodowski D, Espinoza de los Monteros de la Parra M, Tiedemann K, Vogel J, editors. Regulating Corporate Criminal Liability. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gardner-Thorpe C. Some Thoughts on the Medical Milieu in the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century as Reflected in the Life and Activities of James Parkinson (1755–1824). In: Whitaker H, Smith CUM, Finger S, editors. Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007, p. 53–60.

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 Cystic Fibrosis.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Two Oddly Adorable Baby Flamingos Are Welcomed To Columbus Zoo. IFLScience 2016.

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. Social Research and Development of Limited Use to National Policymakers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bai J. Development and validation of the acculturative stress scale for Chinese College Students in the United States (ASSCS). Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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]

Kelly RW. Handcuffing the Police. New York Times 1996:A21.

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 Cystic Fibrosis
Abbreviation	J. Cyst. Fibros.
ISSN (print)	1569-1993
Scope	Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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