How to format your references using the Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Multidisciplinary 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	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. Lander GH. Physics. Sensing electrons on the edge. Science. 2003;301:1057–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ogura K, Okamura H. Conformational change of Sos-derived proline-rich peptide upon binding Grb2 N-terminal SH3 domain probed by NMR. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2913.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Suzuki T, Asami M, Perry ACF. Asymmetric parental genome engineering by Cas9 during mouse meiotic exit. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7621.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Farh KK-H, Grimson A, Jan C, Lewis BP, Johnston WK, Lim LP, et al. The widespread impact of mammalian MicroRNAs on mRNA repression and evolution. Science. 2005;310:1817–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shinohara H, Tagmatarchis N. Endohedral Metallofullerenes. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Petsche H-J, Lewis AC, Liesen J, Russ S, editors. From Past to Future: Graßmann’s Work in Context: Graßmann Bicentennial Conference, September 2009. Basel: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Coosemans T, Sanfélix J, Messagie M, Van Mierlo J, Alves A, Waymel G. Lightweight and Integrated Plastic Solutions for Power Battery Racks in Electric Vehicles. In: Briec E, Müller B, editors. Electric Vehicle Batteries: Moving from Research towards Innovation: Reports of the PPP European Green Vehicles Initiative. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 61–70.

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 Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Breakthrough In Quantum Computing Using Silicon Material. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Airport Financing: Funding Sources for Airport Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Mar. Report No.: RCED-98-71.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Krauss WF. The role of a middle management team during a directed restructuring: A case study of a government agency using Stones’ strong structuration [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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. Vecsey G. Jeter Could Leave the Yankees To Expand His Horizons, and Attire. New York Times. 2010 Dec 2;B14.

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	Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
Abbreviation	Multidiscip. Respir. Med.
ISSN (online)	2049-6958
Scope	Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine